Titly

Titly is a blazingly fast URL shortner written in go.

Features

• Lightning-fast URL shortening
• Handles 10,000+ requests per second
• Supports high concurrency via goroutines
• Redis caching for persistent short codes

Benchmarks

Benchmarks are measured on localhost; production performance may vary depending on database and network latency.

Apache Benchmark

  This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1923142 $>
  Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
  Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

  Benchmarking localhost (be patient)
  Completed 1000 requests
  Completed 2000 requests
  Completed 3000 requests
  Completed 4000 requests
  Completed 5000 requests
  Completed 6000 requests
  Completed 7000 requests
  Completed 8000 requests
  Completed 9000 requests
  Completed 10000 requests
  Finished 10000 requests


  Server Software:
  Server Hostname:        localhost
  Server Port:            4000

  Document Path:          /
  Document Length:        31 bytes

  Concurrency Level:      100
  Time taken for tests:   0.548 seconds
  Complete requests:      10000
  Failed requests:        0
  Total transferred:      1540000 bytes
  HTML transferred:       310000 bytes
  Requests per second:    18233.63 [#/sec] (mean)
  Time per request:       5.484 [ms] (mean)
  Time per request:       0.055 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
  Transfer rate:          2742.17 [Kbytes/sec] received

  Connection Times (ms)
                min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
  Connect:        0    2   1.0      2       8
  Processing:     0    4   3.1      3      36
  Waiting:        0    3   3.0      2      35
  Total:          0    5   3.3      5      37

  Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
    50%      5
    66%      5
    75%      5
    80%      6
    90%      7
    95%     13
    98%     17
    99%     21
  100%     37 (longest request)

wrk

  Running 30s test @ http://localhost:4000/
    4 threads and 100 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency     1.21ms    0.93ms  23.04ms   69.90%
      Req/Sec    22.34k     1.29k   25.53k    77.92%
    2667393 requests in 30.01s, 391.75MB read
  Requests/sec:  88894.04
  Transfer/sec:     13.06MB

Tech Stack

• Go
• Redis
• Sveltekit

Running with Docker

To start both the server and client using Docker Compose, run:

docker compose up --build

Client Port: 4173
Server Port: 4000 Redis Port: 6379