Url Shortening Service

[npathai]

• From long url to short url
• From short to long url
  • Basic conversion
  • Who should append the hostname in short url
  • Considerations for load balancing
  • What if there are multiple hostnames
• Redirect the user to long url when short url is visited
• Url expiry
• User Authentication
  • Basic authentication or OpenId Connect
  • Authenticated User will get Analytics and Tracking
  • Without authentication create url with default expiry maybe a week
  • Delete url
• Add Documentation
• Add logging (include user IP for tracking and analytics)
• short-url-gen service should only be accessible using public network, id-gen-service etc should not be directly reachable from outside network.
• Distributed tracing with Zipkin

[IAmPramod]

@npathai We can think of logging ip of the users visiting any short url. This will help in gathering stats and creating reports.

[npathai]

@IAmPramod Good idea. I will consider that. Currently I am converting both microservices to Micronaut framework.

I started quick and dirty but now when I thought about discovery dashboard, graphana and Prometheus, zipkin tracing, health checks, etc. It would have required hell lot of manual work to get everything going.

So I have taken decision to move to Micronaut. Will push update soon.

[npathai]

@IAmPramod Hard work of porting both services to Micronaut is complete. Phew! Now adding new features should not be that much pain. Check it out. I will update the diagram to reflect the changes. In terms of starting the application, it remains the same.

[IAmPramod]

@npathai Sure, will pull the code and go through it.