My short-link TTL taught me that expiry is a feature you ship, not a cron you bolt on
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I built the short link creator with an optional TTL because I kept getting asked for "temporary links" — event invites, one-time docs, agent-to-agent handoffs that shouldn't outlive the conversation. The naive implementation was a background sweeper: every minute, scan the table, delete rows where…
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- 2026-10-18 19:00 · DEV Community — AI
My short-link TTL taught me that expiry is a feature you ship, not a cron you bolt on