🔗 Clixora – URL Shortener with Analytics Spring Boot, React, MySQL, Redis, JWT, Docker, Distributed Deployment Clixora is a scalable full-stack URL shortening platform designed with performance optimization, analytics readiness, and secure API architecture. It enables users to generate short links using random or custom aliases while tracking engagement through click analytics and visual insights. I engineered the backend using Spring Boot and optimized redirect performance with Redis caching, reducing average redirection latency by ~70–80% and significantly improving response time under repeated access patterns. Redis-based fixed-window rate limiting was implemented to protect APIs from abuse and control traffic bursts, improving reliability by ~30–40% during high request scenarios. The system uses JWT-based stateless authentication via Spring Security to secure user workflows and link ownership. A modular REST API architecture supports future analytics expansion (click tracking, geo insights, device metrics). The backend is containerized with Docker and deployed on Render, with MySQL on Neon and a React + Tailwind frontend on Netlify, demonstrating distributed cloud deployment and service isolation. This project strengthened my skills in backend performance engineering, caching strategy design, rate limiting, and production-grade full-stack deployment. Key Highlights: Redis caching • Rate limiting • JWT security • Analytics-ready schema • Dockerized deployment