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馃憢 Hi, I鈥檓 Nguyen, or you can call me Finn
馃捑 Vimmer
鉂わ笍 Gopher
馃搷I'm based in Da nang, Vietnam
鈿欙笍 I love working with Go and Typescript
鈿欙笍 I love both building distributed systems and the artistry of creating a single binary that efficiently uses minimal resources to accomplish as much as possible.
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Don't start your system with microservice
May 30, 2025 路 4 min read 路 The idea is simple: you have yourself and probably a few devs, you should focus on functionality instead of scaling. Don鈥檛 let the fear of a million users on day one open the door and try your website at the same time. Even with that, the vertical sc...
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Self-host your Wakatime stats for (almost) free with Supabase Postgres + Google Cloud Run
Nov 15, 2024 路 4 min read 路 In my previous post, I introduce the project Wakapi - an alternative to Wakatime but it totally free, it mean you have to self hosted it somewhere. https://hashnode.com/post/cm3i8c9mp001609ku3rhieuku The database Wakapi provide several choices of d...
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Wakapi: my first contribution to the open source
Nov 15, 2024 路 3 min read 路 I have been using Wakatime since 2017, but I stopped using it in recent years because the free plan, which only provides a two-week range report, is not very helpful. I primarily relied on it for the yearly report to see how much I coded over the pas...
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Series Building a Chat System that Scales: A Developer's Journey
Nov 9, 2024 路 6 min read 路 A Developer's Journey I've always wanted to build a chat system, just for the joy of it. The original plan was simple: set up an old HP Elitedesk as a server, NAT the ports, point a domain to it, and share it with friends. But as I looked at today's ...
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