Saw @msamgan's post about putting a short-link buffer in front of printed QR codes and took it way too far.
RAIL: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Links. It shortens your URL with is.gd, v.gd, tinyurl, da.gd and ulvis at once, then load-balances visitors between them. Health checks evict mirrors that die or start serving interstitials.
It's also a URL shortener itself, so you can nest it. Load balancers balancing load balancers. Hard ceiling is ~18 tiers before Chrome gives up with ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.
Rust, docker compose pyramid, Helm chart, kind cluster in CI. Obviously.
https://github.com/HelgeSverre/rail-rs
GitHubGitHub - HelgeSverre/rail-rs: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Links: enterprise-grade URL shortener redundancy. Shortens your URL with several URL shorteners and load-balances between them. Nestable.Redundant Array of Inexpensive Links: enterprise-grade URL shortener redundancy. Shortens your URL with several URL shorteners and load-balances between them. Nestable. - HelgeSverre/rail-rs
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