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Gökhan Gökalp
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Keeping Specs and Shared Understanding Aligned at AI Speed
With AI-assisted engineering, we engineers are moving faster and changes are getting shipped faster. This is also true for my own daily work. But I must say, the work surrounding those changes doesn’t really get smaller. I have always believed that complexity never goes away, it just moves to a different place. Because of this […]
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Building an AI Agent in .NET: Deterministic Routing and Intelligent Search with Microsoft Agent Framework
Nowadays wherever I look, everyone talks about AI coding agents, agentic systems or LLM powered applications and so on. It has been almost a year that I have been working on different domains where we integrate LLMs into our applications, as well as getting my hands dirtier by integrating AI assisted coding practices into our […]
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DevEx Series 03: Laying the Azure Focused Platform Foundation for an IDP with ASO and KRO
In the first two parts of this DevEx series, I tried to show how golden paths in Backstage can enable developer self‑service without chaos and how extending the catalog into copilots with MCP servers transforms discoverability into a conversational experience. Both of these steps were about reducing friction and giving developers paved roads to move […]
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Overcoming Event Size Limits with the Conditional Claim-Check Pattern in Event-Driven Architectures
In today’s technological age, we typically build our application solutions on event-driven architecture in order to make them as scalable, resilient, and flexible as possible. While event-driven architecture sounds good, it also brings along many complexities and limitations. In my previous articles, I also tried to touch on topics such as the best practices we […]
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Securing the Supply Chain of Containerized Applications to Reduce Security Risks (Policy Enforcement-Automated Governance with OPA Gatekeeper and Ratify) – Part 2
In the first part of the article, we talked the importance of Software Supply Chain security and the measures that can be taken throughout the SDLC processes to mitigate the security risks of containerized applications. In this context, we emphasized the importance of the shifting-left approach, highlighting the benefits of integrating various security elements into […]
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Securing the Supply Chain of Containerized Applications to Reduce Security Risks (Security Scanning, SBOMs, Signing&Verifying Artifacts) – Part 1
As we know, the adoption of containerization in modern software development environments has significantly changed the way applications are built and deployed. The lightweight and self-contained nature of containers provides various advantages and flexibilities, such as the ability to easily move applications consistently across different environments and quickly scale them. In addition, containers are also […]
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Delegating Identity & Access Management to Azure AD B2C and Integrating with .NET
As we know, when developing a product, taking advantage of as many different cloud solutions as possible not only saves time and complexity but also allows us to minimize various administrative costs. Nowadays many of us are developing cloud-native applications or migrating to the cloud. During this time, we try to benefit from different solutions […]
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How to Order Events in Microservices by Using Azure Service Bus (FIFO Consumers)
Sometimes there are some scenarios that we can’t avoid or have to implement even though we know their complexity or drawbacks. I think, having a need to process some events/messages that are relevant to each other in a certain order (that they are published) in a distributed environment is also one of them. For example, […]
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Building Microservices by Using Dapr and .NET with Minimum Effort – 02 (Azure Container Apps)
In the previous article, we talked about the Dapr project, its benefits and developed two sample microservice with .NET 6 as self-hosted mode in the local environment. (If you haven’t read the first article, you can find it here.) Within the scope of this article, we will perform the deployments on Azure Container Apps by […]
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Building Microservices by Using Dapr and .NET with Minimum Effort – 01
As we know, technology and our habits are constantly changing day by day. Especially after the pandemic, the trend towards digitalization and technology has increased considerably. Due to these changes, we as developers, also pay attention that the applications we develop are portable and scalable as much as possible in order to adapt to these […]
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Getting Memory Dump of .NET Applications (Windows&Linux Containers) on Kubernetes
As we know, the best way to debug our applications that crash or hang due to memory leaks or unknown reasons is to analyze the dump files. At least that’s how my experience has been so far. As developers, at least we need to be able to analyze dumps to roughly understand why our applications […]
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Building OCR Workflow on Azure By Using Azure Function, Logic Apps and Computer Vision API
I think we are all aware of the importance of digital transformation and the benefits that we can achieve with it. As we know, many organizations are also taking different steps towards digital transformation. However, as we can imagine sometimes we may also encounter different difficulties in these transformation processes. For example sometimes there are […]
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Working with Persistent Volumes by Using Azure Files in Azure Kubernetes Service
Applications that we develop as cloud-native sometimes may have to deal with data related operations such as accessing, storing or sharing a data between applications. As we know, our applications that we host on Kubernetes as containerized are ephemeral and stateless by nature. In other words, if we don’t use a persistent storage solution, any […]
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Calculating Code Coverage Metrics in .NET Applications and Integrating with CI Processes
Code coverage metric is an important indicator of how healthy and reliable our project is, and how quickly we can adapt to changes. Basically code coverage determines how many of the lines of the code we have written are verified by writing tests. Of course, we are not talking about happy-path test scenarios that we […]
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Performing SQL Migration Operations by using Kubernetes Job
As technology is constantly evolving and changing, the database schema of the application, that we work in, can also change with each new feature we implement. Therefore, we need to follow a migration strategy. In this way, the changes, that will be performed on domain models, can also be applied to the database schema. In […]
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Improving Repeated Access with Cache-Aside Pattern
As a responsible developer, in addition to being able to write clean code, it is also important to ensure that our application runs efficiently. As we know, we must return results as quickly as possible to provide a better experience to customers. Well, one of the most basic performance improvements we can implement quickly is […]
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