A URL shortener built for speed and nothing else.
A project that has gone through many iterations and complete rewrites, and was one of my pinnacle projects through University.
The project was rewritten about once a year as a service to experimenting with tools and designs I’d slowly picked up through the year, and served as a practical tool to put my knowledge to work.
After a few years the things I was learning had outgrown this project, and couldn’t be applied without this service becoming a much larger and complicated tool than what was required or appropriate.
As such the latest iteration is back to basics, it’s as simple as I can make it while still doing everything I need it to do, which is simply turn a short URL to a long URL based on some config.
It acts as the running service behind but.la