kurz ✂️

another url shortener

About

This project is mainly for research purposes. Feel free to use and change.

The idea behind this project is to create a fast reliable url shortener that offers access to customizable urls, simple analytics and notifications.

This project has been implemented in Go, because it is amazing, and I choosed Aerospike since it is an amazing Database with low latency.

Installation

Long but nothing missed.

Aerospike

To install the aerospike server follow these instructions. In order to have a good configuration, we need to change the instructions.

# Start aerospike if not done already
# - generate config files
$ sudo service aerospike start
# Open the configuration
$ vim /etc/aerospike/aerospike.conf

...
namespace kurz {
  memory-size 1G # In-memory size
  default-ttl 0  # Data will stay for ever
  storage-engine memory

  # Disk backup
  storage-device device {
    file /opt/aerospike/data/kurz.dat # Target file
    filesize 1G         # Backup file size
    data-in-memory true # In-memory and on disk
  }
}

# Close with :wq
# Restart aerospike
$ sudo service aerospike restart
# Create indexes for search
# Open aerospike client
$ aql
# Create email and id index
> CREATE INDEX email ON kurz.users (email) STRING
> CREATE INDEX id ON kurz.users (id) STRING
# Exit
> exit
$

kurz

# Clone the code
$ git clone https://oltdaniel/kurz
$ cd kurz
# Update makefile
$ vim Makefile
# Now change `HOME_DIR` to your home folder
# Then close with :wq
$ 
# Install dependencies
$ make util.install
# Generate API secret
$ make util.key
# Link kurz to go project folder
$ make link
# Add nginx configuration
$ make nginx
# Restart nginx
$ sudo service nginx restart