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  1. Which path is usually much more read-heavy in a URL shortener system?
  2. Why is a counter plus base62 encoding a common interview answer for short-code generation?
  3. What is a major risk of using only a raw hash of the original URL as the short code?
  4. Click analytics should usually be captured asynchronously instead of delaying the redirect response.
  5. Why would a cache help a URL shortener?
  6. Which feature requires an explicit uniqueness check in addition to general code generation?

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