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Gökhan Gökalp
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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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Some Awesome News of .NET 7
As we know, .NET Conf 2022 took place between 8-10 November. During the conf, exciting news and performance improvements around .NET 7 and C# 11 were mentioned. In this release, especially some topics got focused which support us to develop more “fast”, “lightweight” and easier “cloud-native” applications. In this article, I will try to mention […]
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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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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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High-Performance, Stream-Based Communication Between Services with NET 5 and gRPC
Due to the needs of today’s technology age, we are trying to develop our applications using microservice architecture that met the scale demands. Also about the communication between distributed services, we are performing it with REST (HTTP JSON) approach at many points. In this article, I will try to mention how we can perform high-performance […]
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How Should My Event Be Designed? Some Thoughts on Event-Based Systems
As we know, software development doesn’t end easily especially in today’s world. In addition to developing the software, it is one of our biggest problems and responsibilities to ensure that it works properly and consistently. As we can imagine, from time to time those kinds of needs lead us to microservice architectures, event-based systems and […]
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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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