Building ezli.me, a link shortener in Rust
Summary
This article presents ezli.me, a minimal, self-hosted link shortener implemented in Rust. It highlights a lean architecture with an in-memory cache, PostgreSQL for persistence, and a background process that batch-flushes writes to keep the request path fast. The piece emphasizes a tiny footprint, deterministic short IDs, and deployment on a small K3s cluster without Redis or queues.