Technical Glossary

• Nanoid: A small, secure, URL-friendly unique string ID generator utilizing cryptographic random values.
• Base62: An encoding scheme using 62 alphanumeric characters (0-9, a-z, A-Z) commonly used in link shortening.
• HTTP 302 Found: A common status code indicating that the resource resides temporarily under a different URI.
• DAO (Data Access Object): A structural design pattern that abstracts and encapsulates all access to the data source.
• Atomic Operation: An operation that completes in a single step relative to other threads/processes, preventing race conditions.