Developing an url-shortener application and deploying it on k8s
Introduction To enhance my skills in Golang and Kubernetes deployments, I decided to build a small containerized web application with dependencies on a database and a cache. An URL shortener application seemed like a suitable choice, as it fulfills these requirements while remaining simple and practical. The application exposes two endpoints: a POST endpoint to shorten a given URL and a GET endpoint to redirect the shortened URL back to the original one.
