From Napkin Sketch to Azure Blueprint: Designing Your URL Shortener’s Foundation

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Designing a Scalable URL Shortener on Microsoft Azure

Part 2 of our Azure URL shortener series explores the critical architectural decisions that determine whether your system scales gracefully or collapses under load. We’ll compare Azure App Service vs Kubernetes, dive into why SQL databases often beat NoSQL for URL shorteners, and design a multi-tiered caching strategy that can handle millions of redirects per second.

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