A deceptively rich warm-up. The interesting decisions are how you generate short, collision-free, unguessable keys at scale, and how a read-heavy 100:1 workload shapes the storage and caching. Here is the clean design with capacity math.
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A deceptively rich warm-up. The interesting decisions are how you generate short, collision-free, unguessable keys at scale, and how a read-heavy 100:1 workload shapes the storage and caching. Here is the clean design with capacity math.
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