shlue

URL shortener PoC

The service has 2 endpoints:

• shorten, that returns a short URL for a URL passed as a parameter
• resolve, that redirects a short URL to the mapped URL

Implementation relies on:

• redis as a key/value store for mapped URLs and as a distributed sequence generator
• hashids as a key shortener

You can test the service deployed on Heroku:

$ curl -d 'url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening' -X POST https://shlue.herokuapp.com/