https://prateeksharma.me/tags/docker/ Recent content in Docker on Prateek Sharma Hugo en-us Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://prateeksharma.me/projects/tidylnk/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://prateeksharma.me/projects/tidylnk/ <p><a href="https://admin.tidylnk.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tidylnk</a> is a URL shortener I built to have a simple, self-hosted alternative to the usual third-party link shorteners, with an admin panel to manage and track links.</p> <h2 id="tech-stack">Tech stack</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Backend</strong> — Go, serving the redirect and link-management APIs.</li> <li><strong>Frontend</strong> — a React admin panel for creating, organizing, and tracking shortened links.</li> <li><strong>Storage</strong> — PostgreSQL as the primary datastore for link records, with Redis on the redirect hot path for fast lookups.</li> <li><strong>Deployment</strong> — backend and database containerized with Docker and deployed on Railway.</li> </ul> <h2 id="why-i-built-it">Why I built it</h2> <p>I wanted a link shortener I fully controlled — no reliance on a third party&rsquo;s uptime, rate limits, or analytics restrictions — and a project to exercise Go and Redis together on a workload where caching genuinely matters: redirect latency.</p>