Yusuf Aytas

What would a manager as a service look like?

A practical guide to service overload, from retry storms and cascading failure to throttling, brownouts, load shedding, and runbook-driven response.

Design a scalable key value store, from requirements and capacity math to replication, consistency, durability, and failure scenarios.

Incidents in software development can be an opportunity to learn from both severe and minor incidents to improve processes and outcomes

Discover Pulur, my ancestral village in northeastern Türkiye, where deep history, nomadic roots, and old traditions still live on.

Barselona yönetimi, Neymar’ın transfer skandalları, kötü teknik direktör seçimleri ve israfçı harcamaların sonunda Messi’den de oldu.

Discover the greatest XI of all time in football, featuring legendary players who have left an indelible mark on the sport and redefined greatness

What defines greatness in football beyond statistics, it’s joy and excitement in the game, exemplified by the legendary Brazilian Ronaldo

Uzun süre Apple ürünleri hakkında şüphelerim vardı, ama kullanıcı deneyimi ve gizlilik konularında sağladıkları avantajlar beni ikna etti.

A reflective account of climbing Bray Head near Dublin, with steep paths, coastal views, and the kind of walk that feels bigger than it looks.

A short collection of John Stuart Mill quotes on liberty, free speech, individuality, utilitarianism, and the social construction of gender roles

İki yıl süren şikayetlerin ardından Apple, MacBook Pro M1 ile önemli iyileştirmeler yaptı.

A sunny day in the Wicklow Mountains, with a stop at Guinness Lake, one of my favourite places in Ireland, and a slow drive through the Glendalough area.

Explore the downsides of including author names in code headers, advocating for a consistent coding style that prioritizes collaboration

Reflect on missed opportunities in software development, exploring personal experiences and the dedication required to turn ideas into successful projects

Risk builds gradually.

Doğduğu yere dönme, anne babayla daha çok vakit geçirme ve hayatın sonuna dair kısa bir yazı.

A curated collection of quotes from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, soldier, reformer, and founding father of Turkey, on leadership, vision, and progress.

Message brokers look simple when one team owns them.

Leetcode hard problems test pattern memorisation, not engineering ability.

Since Mockito 2.1, argThat lets you verify specific object attributes in unit tests without checking every argument.

Why compatibility matters in production systems, especially across rollouts, mixed versions, delayed consumers, rollback safety, and live boundaries

Yazılım Mühendisi seviyelerini keşfedin: Junior’dan Mid-Senior’a, beklentiler ve sorumluluklar hakkında bilgi edinin, kariyer gelişimini destekleyin

Good APIs do not win on first impression.

How to evaluate an open-source library before importing it, covering security, correctness, licenses, community health, and production risk

When wrapper libraries are worth the extra layer, how they reduce dependency risk, and when they only add more maintenance work

Chrome’dan Firefox’a geçme nedenlerimi; gizlilik, tekel riski, açık kaynak yaklaşımı ve tarayıcı deneyimi üzerinden kişisel olarak değerlendiriyorum.

Uzun yıllar MacBook kullanmış biri olarak, MacBook Pro’nun fiyatına göre verimliliğini eleştiriyorum.

Minimum Viable Agile keeps short cycles and fast feedback without the ceremonies.

Agile frameworks often fail to deliver on their promise.

Your work won’t save you.

Learn how to achieve mutual exclusion in Java using Spring Framework, ensuring tasks like scheduled emails or message processing run on a single node

Dangers of technology hype in software development, from unnecessary abstractions to choosing the wrong tools, and learn to prioritize practical solutions

Quirks of JavaScript, from unexpected behaviors to its powerful ES6 features, and discover why modern JavaScript is both expressive and enjoyable to use

The importance of selecting the right programming language for projects, discussing common pitfalls and factors to consider for optimal choices

Yazılım öğrenirken neden İngilizceye ihtiyaç duyduğumuzu, Türkçe kaynakların sınırlarını ve mesleki gelişimde bunun neden kritik kaldığını anlatıyor.

Dublin’de Türk yemekleri ve kebapları sunan Yusuf’un Yeri, zengin menüsüyle lezzetli çorbalar, ana yemekler ve tatlılar sunuyor.

Why Scrum became bloated, how certification turned into a business, and why software teams need trust, ownership, and clarity more than rituals

Why stateless systems are easier to test, scale, and operate, and how tiny pockets of state create outages, drift, and debugging pain.

Roma’yı iki perspektiften keşfedin: Yeni ve Eski Roma’nın görkemli tarihini deneyimleyin.

Learn the importance of testing before refactoring legacy code, using smoke and unit tests to ensure behavior consistency and understanding of the system

Discover the role of duplicate code in software development, examining how it can improve readability and when to refactor for better maintainability.

A day in the life of a software engineer: dashboards, planning, design, coding, reviews, and the rhythm that keeps it all from falling apart.

Smaller is faster principle applies to software development, enhancing code readability, team efficiency, and microservices architecture

A raw look at how a data discovery tool exposes hidden drift, broken schemas, bad metadata, and why logging is the only thing that keeps it sane.

Microservices, yazılım mimarisinde bağımsız ve küçük servislerin kullanımını artırarak, sistemlerin esnekliğini sağlarken yeni zorluklar da getiriyor.

Software doesn't need formal architect roles.

Pair programming isn't always worth it, but for onboarding, critical bugs, and vital components, a second eye makes a real difference.

Agile frameworks often grow heavier than the problems they solve.

Consistency in code matters more than perfection.