Hard Design: URL Shortener (TinyURL)

A URL shortener has 100M URLs and uses MD5 hash truncated to 6 Base62 chars. What is the main risk?

— Tests your understanding of this concept.

Answer Options

A URLs are too long

B Hash collisions requiring retry logic

C MD5 is too slow

D Base62 is not URL-safe

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