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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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DevEx Series 01: Creating Golden Paths with Backstage, Developer Self-Service Without Losing Control
As an architect involved in platform engineering and DevEx transformation within a large-scale organization for the past few years, I’ve seen firsthand how developer experience directly shapes not just the speed and quality of software delivery, but also how effectively teams can adopt governance, security, and compliance practices as enablers rather than blockers. I can […]
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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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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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