Pastebin

Pastebin

Design a system like Pastebin, where a user can enter a piece of text and get a randomly generated URL to access it.

Solution

• The system does not support user accounts or editing documents
• The system tracks analytics of how many times each page is accessed
• Old documents get deleted after not being accessed for a sufficiently long period of time
• While there isnot true authentication on accessing documents, users should not be able to guess document URLs easily
• The system has a frontend as well as an API
• The analytics for each URL can be accessed through a stats link on each page.
• Generate randome GUID
• hashtable - mongodb