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Mehmet TURAÇ

Principal Architect who's been in production fires for 20+ years. 3 startups, 1 exit. I write about distributed systems, agentic AI, and the scars that come with shipping at scale.

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School of Hard Deploys — 3 startups, 1 exit, countless P0 incidents

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AI Product Architect & Strategist

Scale Wars #6 — Spotify: The Squad Model and the Power of Golden Paths

Scale Wars #6 — Spotify: The Squad Model and the Power of Golden Paths

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Scale Wars #5 — Twitter: The Fan-out Pattern and the Architecture Behind 140 Characters

Scale Wars #5 — Twitter: The Fan-out Pattern and the Architecture Behind 140 Characters

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Scale Wars #4 — Airbnb: Data Mesh and the Death of the Central Data Team

Scale Wars #4 — Airbnb: Data Mesh and the Death of the Central Data Team

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Scale Wars #3 — Amazon: Two-Pizza Teams and the SOA Manifesto

Scale Wars #3 — Amazon: Two-Pizza Teams and the SOA Manifesto

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Scale Wars #2 — Uber: How They Processed 100 Billion Events Per Day

Scale Wars #2 — Uber: How They Processed 100 Billion Events Per Day

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Scale Wars #7 — What We Learned from the Giants (Series Finale)

Scale Wars #7 — What We Learned from the Giants (Series Finale)

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Scale Wars #1 — Netflix: The Company That Killed the Monolith

Scale Wars #1 — Netflix: The Company That Killed the Monolith

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Scale Wars — The Architectural Secrets of Tech Giants

Scale Wars — The Architectural Secrets of Tech Giants

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I Wrote a 15-Episode Technical Novel About Waking Up From the AI Illusion

I Wrote a 15-Episode Technical Novel About Waking Up From the AI Illusion

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Back to Code | Ep 15: The New Manifesto — Master and Apprentice (Season Finale)

Back to Code | Ep 15: The New Manifesto — Master and Apprentice (Season Finale)

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Back to Code | Ep 14: Technical Debt Credit Score — Measuring the Unmeasurable

Back to Code | Ep 14: Technical Debt Credit Score — Measuring the Unmeasurable

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Back to Code | Ep 13: Event-Driven Architecture — Kafka and the Async World

Back to Code | Ep 13: Event-Driven Architecture — Kafka and the Async World

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Back to Code | Ep 12: Observability — From Log Spaghetti to Traces

Back to Code | Ep 12: Observability — From Log Spaghetti to Traces

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Back to Code | Ep 11: The Legacy Code Mine — Strangler Fig Pattern

Back to Code | Ep 11: The Legacy Code Mine — Strangler Fig Pattern

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Back to Code | Ep 10: The Security Vulnerability Factory

Back to Code | Ep 10: The Security Vulnerability Factory

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Back to Code | Ep 09: CI/CD Pipeline and Flaky Tests

Back to Code | Ep 09: CI/CD Pipeline and Flaky Tests

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Back to Code | Ep 08: The Illusion of Type Safety

Back to Code | Ep 08: The Illusion of Type Safety

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Back to Code | Ep 07: The Lies of Mocks — Reality with Testcontainers

Back to Code | Ep 07: The Lies of Mocks — Reality with Testcontainers

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Back to Code | Ep 06: State Hell and Idempotency

Back to Code | Ep 06: State Hell and Idempotency

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Back to Code | Ep 05: The Revenge of Context — DDD and Bounded Contexts

Back to Code | Ep 05: The Revenge of Context — DDD and Bounded Contexts

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Back to Code | Ep 04: Forgetting the Machine — Big O and the Performance Tax

Back to Code | Ep 04: Forgetting the Machine — Big O and the Performance Tax

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Back to Code | Ep 03: The Lost Craft — TDD and False Confidence

Back to Code | Ep 03: The Lost Craft — TDD and False Confidence

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Back to Code | Ep 02: Autopsy — The Lie That Looked Flawless

Back to Code | Ep 02: Autopsy — The Lie That Looked Flawless

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Back to Code | Ep 01: The Invoice of Illusion and the Black Friday Crash

Back to Code | Ep 01: The Invoice of Illusion and the Black Friday Crash

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eoc: Building the Operating System for OpenAI Codex — 230+ Skills, 60 Agents, Cross-Harness

eoc: Building the Operating System for OpenAI Codex — 230+ Skills, 60 Agents, Cross-Harness

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Why AI Agents Fail?

Why AI Agents Fail?

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🌪️ We Ship to Production Without Tests. Here's How It Destroyed Us.

🌪️ We Ship to Production Without Tests. Here's How It Destroyed Us.

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I built a product in one AI session. Here's the system that made it ship right.

I built a product in one AI session. Here's the system that made it ship right.

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Remote Work Didn’t Break Productivity — It Broke Human Connection

Remote Work Didn’t Break Productivity — It Broke Human Connection

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Hermes vs OpenClaw: Which AI assistant would you actually trust?

Hermes vs OpenClaw: Which AI assistant would you actually trust?

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Strategic LLM Adoption: A Director's Guide to Fine-Tuning Models for Domain-Specific Applications

Strategic LLM Adoption: A Director's Guide to Fine-Tuning Models for Domain-Specific Applications

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The Context Window Lie: Why Your LLM Remembers Nothing

The Context Window Lie: Why Your LLM Remembers Nothing

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Stop Your AI Agent From Building Tools That Already Exist

Stop Your AI Agent From Building Tools That Already Exist

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Why Versioned SQL Beats Vector RAG for Agent Memory Systems

Why Versioned SQL Beats Vector RAG for Agent Memory Systems

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I Got Access to 136 AI Models for Free — NVIDIA NIM API Deep Dive

I Got Access to 136 AI Models for Free — NVIDIA NIM API Deep Dive

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Your Agent Isn't Reflecting. It's Performing Reflection.

Your Agent Isn't Reflecting. It's Performing Reflection.

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The Context Window Is a Lie

The Context Window Is a Lie

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The Context Window Lie

The Context Window Lie

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How I Stopped My AI Agent From Reinventing the Wheel

How I Stopped My AI Agent From Reinventing the Wheel

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