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Design Pastebin

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How do you handle large paste sizes? (Limit size per paste, chunk storage if needed)

How do you support expiration of pastes? (TTL in DB, background cleanup jobs)

How do you handle anonymous vs registered users? (Access control, rate limits, abuse prevention)

How do you generate unique IDs or short links for each paste? (Random string, hash, or incremental counter with base62 encoding)