Service overload happens a lot. If you haven’t seen one, count yourself lucky. The first time I watched it take a system down, I realized how serious it’s to get the basics right and implement mechanisms to avoid it. I remember how it brought down our social services to its knees in the early 2010s. There was no autoscaling, we […]
I’ve been asked once to design a key value store in an interview. It looks easy at first. Then it gets hard, fast. What makes it interesting is how ambiguous it is. I started using it for interviewing staff+ level myself as well, because the ambiguity is really hard to get right. I like this question because you can approach […]
Incidents are used for the negative consequences of an action. The incident comes from an action that fails to result in the expected outcome. For instance, deploying a code to production to add a new feature to improve performance. It then takes down the whole service. This is an unexpected outcome. The incident learning is the part where we uncover […]
I was born in a remote village in Turkey. It’s located in the northeast part of Turkey. It’s called Gökçedere, named after a tiny river dividing the village into two parts. Though, this isn’t the original name. It had a different name before, Pulur. The village is pretty old, going back as far as the 16th century. The village has […]
I don’t follow football nowadays closely. My enthusiasm is limited to big competitions. Part of the reason is the decline in football. There aren’t as many good players as used to be. I like some nostalgia and think about a team that would be a powerhouse. Thus, I decided to write a post about my all-time team for football. Note […]