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Gökhan Gökalp
Cloud Architecture, Platform Engineering & Agentic AI
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Runtime Governance for AI Agents: Policy-as-Code with OPA
In my previous article, I tried to show how we can build a simple but practical AI Agent using Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) with deterministic routing and intelligent search. I also mentioned that I kept things simple on purpose and that in a production scenario there are other concerns that need to be addressed. Building the agent itself is really […]
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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 02: From Catalog to Copilots. Boosting Backstage with MCP Server
In the first part of this DevEx series, I tried to explain Platform Engineering and DevEx and showed how Backstage can help make an organization’s assets discoverable while creating golden paths that enable developer self-service without chaos. The goal is to increase developer productivity. In this second part, I will dive deeper into Backstage’s catalog […]
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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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Providing Atomicity for Eventual Consistency with Outbox Pattern in .NET Microservices
As we know, adapting to microservice architecture has many benefits, but unfortunately, it also has some challenging points. Especially on the data consistency side. For example, in the monolithic world, we can use ACID database transactions to easily perform multiple operations in a consistent way. However, in the microservice world, as transactions need to be […]
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