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URL Shortener — where you'll use consistent hashing yourself

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Scaffold

In the flagship URL Shortener journey: Ch 7 shards the urls table by hash(short_code), Ch 6.5 uses Redis Cluster (the 16,384-slot variant), Ch 8 selects L7 write coordinator.

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