Boss vs Fresher: System Designer Cracker! — URL Shortener Walkthrough

System Design Fundamentals: URL Shortener Walkthrough — speaker session with Nandini Verma at GDG on Campus JIS University.

• Date: 2026-02-20
• Format: Speaker Session / Workshop
• Venue: Room 1009, JIS University
• Speaker: Nandini Verma (System Design Mentor)
• Hosting chapter: GDG on Campus, JIS University
• Lead organizer: Ayushman Bhattacharya

About

Interactive system-design walkthrough framed as 'Boss vs Fresher' — Nandini Verma led a deep dive on building a URL shortener from first principles, covering schema design, hashing strategies, caching, and read/write trade-offs. Pitched at students preparing for system-design interviews.

What's in this repo

• slides/ — speaker deck (PDF / PPTX)
• resources/ — handouts, links, code samples shared during the session
• photos/ — event photos (or links to album)

Receipts

This event is also logged in the chapter's umbrella event repo: dscjisu/community-impact-2026 → events/.

License

Slides and content — CC-BY-4.0 unless otherwise noted by the speaker.