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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)

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

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

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