System Design 101: What Problem Does a Load Balancer Actually Solve?In the previous article, I tried designing a URL shortener. I started with something ridiculously simple: Client → Server → Database And then, as soon as I started thinking about scale, the architectAug 17 · 9 min readsystemdesign101.hashnode.dev
System Design 101: How Would You Build a URL Shortener?I've always found system design a little weird. You start with a seemingly simple problem, and five minutes later you're talking about load balancers, database replicas, caching, sharding and distribuAug 16 · 10 min readsystemdesign101.hashnode.dev
