Hi, I am Vic. I blog about software engineering and indie making.https://vicvijayakumar.com/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/debian-node-docker-image/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/debian-node-docker-image/Using Alpine is all fun and games until you need to install something for which there is no prebuilt musl package, and now you need to install the entire universe & build it from source.Wed, 07 May 2025 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/when-recursion-is-too-slow-fibonacci/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/when-recursion-is-too-slow-fibonacci/I was recently asked about the best way to calculate a particular Fibonacci number. In this post I explain why you may not always want to reach for recursion, a favorite technique of interviewers. ✨ WITH MEMES AND GRAPHS. ✨Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:50:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/dockerizing-nextjs-remix-node-apps/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/dockerizing-nextjs-remix-node-apps/This is an example of how to run a node.js app in a Docker container.Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/full-stack-app-remix-prisma-supabase-vercel/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/full-stack-app-remix-prisma-supabase-vercel/There is a misconception that Remix is only for static sites. This is a how-to guide for building a full-stack app with the new framework + Prisma + Supabase, and deploying it to Vercel.Mon, 14 Mar 2022 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-art-of-writing-good-commit-messages/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-art-of-writing-good-commit-messages/The difference between good and bad commit messages, and how to enforce the structure with commitlint and Husky git hooks.Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:01:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/eslint-airbnb-style-guide-prettier/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/eslint-airbnb-style-guide-prettier/We spend far more time reading code than writing it. Set up a linter and code formatter so you don't spend time worrying about how your code should look, and automatically fix a lot of common errors.Fri, 22 May 2020 21:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/typescript-type-alias-vs-interface/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/typescript-type-alias-vs-interface/Should you use Type Aliases or Interfaces? The answer may surprise you.Tue, 30 Nov 2021 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/switching-from-google-analytics-to-plausible/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/switching-from-google-analytics-to-plausible/I've decided to move away from GA and go with a different analytics product.Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-bff-backend-for-frontends-architectural-pattern/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-bff-backend-for-frontends-architectural-pattern/Let's talk about the BFF pattern. No, BFF doesn't mean Best Friends Forever, but really it kinda is.Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/docker-containers-with-persistent-storage/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/docker-containers-with-persistent-storage/Running a Docker container usually does not allow you to persist any configs or other files. Let's look at a few ways to make this more useful.Tue, 13 Apr 2021 02:22:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-most-interesting-bug-ever/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/the-most-interesting-bug-ever/This is a dramatic retelling of the time I had to chase a particular bug across several layers of the stack. Read on and see if you can figure out what the issue was.Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/automatically-set-slack-status/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/automatically-set-slack-status/Automate the process of updating your Slack status using information in your calendar.Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/convert-api-responses-from-json-to-csv-with-jq/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/convert-api-responses-from-json-to-csv-with-jq/It gets tedious if you need to write a script every time you need to parse an API response to do some data analysis on it. This post shows you how to do that from the command line.Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:01:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/basic-data-analysis-unix-linux-tools/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/basic-data-analysis-unix-linux-tools/Unix/Linux utilities are one of my favorite ways to do basic text analysis. This post was originally a Twitter thread but I kept running into the character limit and wanted to write it down in longer form, so here we are.Wed, 04 Nov 2020 20:48:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/dont-whiteboard-your-developers/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/dont-whiteboard-your-developers/Fix your interview process! Complicated whiteboarding sessions only test whether you’re good at interviewing and whether you are good at memorizing textbook solutions to textbook problems. They don't tell you if someone will be good at their job.Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:50:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/yakdb-a-nosql-database-in-go/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/yakdb-a-nosql-database-in-go/yakdb is a highly-performant in-memory key-value store. This in an experiment in writing a key-value store with Golang.Tue, 05 May 2015 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/mass-virtual-hosting-in-nginx/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/mass-virtual-hosting-in-nginx/I seem to get a lot of traffic to my post about mass virtual hosting with Apache, so I felt like I should probably write this simply for the sake of completeness, even though it's brutally simple.Sat, 25 Apr 2015 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/migrating-large-innodb-tables/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/migrating-large-innodb-tables/I needed to move a 100gb database (all tables are INNODB) from a server in datacenter A to a different server in datacenter B. It was complicated enough to need to be documented.Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/mass-virtual-hosting-in-apache/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/mass-virtual-hosting-in-apache/Sometimes you have no choice but to use Apache. And you might want to support wildcard domains for your entire team so dynamic hostnames work.Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:00:00 GMThttps://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/rebooting-a-blog-in-under-24-hours/https://vicvijayakumar.com/posts/rebooting-a-blog-in-under-24-hours/This is the story of the time I converted my blog to Jekyll.Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:00:00 GMT