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.

Joined on Feb 21, 2025 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmetturac/

Education

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

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he/him

Work

AI Product Architect & Strategist

Mehmet TURAÇ

May 30

Great Stack to Doesn't Work Bonus: 10 PostgreSQL Features You Didn't Know Existed

#discuss #postgres #database #beginners

4 min read

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Mehmet TURAÇ

May 30

Harness Engineering: The Code Around the Model Is the Hard Part

#ai #agents #architecture #productionengineering

6 min read

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May 29

Dynamic Workflows in Opus 4.8: Build a Self-Verifying PR Reviewer

#opus #ai #workflows #javascript

6 min read

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May 29

Great Stack to Doesn't Work #1 — PostgreSQL: "I Added an Index and It Got Slower"

#discuss #postgres #database #backend

8 min read

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May 29

Will Opus 4.8 change our daily routine, or did it just add a slider?

#discuss #ai #programming #automation

3 min read

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May 28

I Built a Claude Code Skill That Reads Your Codebase's DNA in 20 Files

#ai #claudecode #architecture #programming

4 min read

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May 28

Architecture of Chaos Part 4 (Finale) — Split-Brain Surgery, Chaos Engineering, and Shipping to Production

#systemdesign #distributedsystems #devops #architecture

6 min read

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May 28

Architecture of Chaos Part 3 — Event Sourcing Saved Our Audit Trail, Then a Fiber Cable Broke

#systemdesign #eventsourcing #architecture #backend

6 min read

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May 28

Architecture of Chaos Part 2 — CAP Is Dead, Long Live PACELC (and CRDTs That Actually Work)

#systemdesign #distributedsystems #architecture #database

6 min read

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May 28

Architecture of Chaos: Taming a Planet-Scale Financial Beast (Part 1 — Lying Clocks & Vector Clocks)

#systemdesign #distributedsystems #architecture #backend

8 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #devops #architecture #softwareengineering

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #architecture #backend #programming

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #dataengineering #architecture #backend

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #architecture #softwareengineering #webdev

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #architecture #backend #programming

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #softwareengineering #architecture #programming

3 min read

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May 26

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

#systemdesign #microservices #architecture #programming

3 min read

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May 26

Scale Wars — The Architectural Secrets of Tech Giants

#systemdesign #architecture #programming #softwareengineering

1 min read

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May 26

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

#showdev #programming #ai #architecture

4 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #ai #career #architecture

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #devops #ai #productivity

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #architecture #kafka #ai

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #devops #observability #ai

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #architecture #ai #devops

2 min read

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May 26

Back to Code | Ep 10: The Security Vulnerability Factory

#programming #security #ai #webdev

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #testing #devops #ai

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #typescript #ai #testing

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #testing #ai #docker

2 min read

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May 26

Back to Code | Ep 06: State Hell and Idempotency

#programming #ai #distributedsystems #typescript

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #ai #architecture #beginners

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #performance #ai #database

2 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #tdd #ai #testing

3 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #ai #architecture #typescript

3 min read

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May 26

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

#programming #ai #architecture #typescript

3 min read

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May 18

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

#opensource #ai #codex #developerproductivity

4 min read

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May 15

Why AI Agents Fail?

#ai #automation #agents #code

6 min read

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May 7

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

#tdd #testing #softwareengineering #development

2 min read

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May 4

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

#ai #productivity #openai #claude

3 min read

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May 2

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

#culture #remote #career #productivity

4 min read

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Apr 30

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

#agents #ai #openclaw #podcast

1 min read

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Apr 29

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

#llm #ai #finetuning #architecture

3 min read

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Apr 27

The Context Window Lie: Why Your LLM Remembers Nothing

#ai #llm #machinelearning #architecture

5 min read

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Apr 26

Stop Your AI Agent From Building Tools That Already Exist

#ai #claudecode #productivity #programming

2 min read

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Apr 26

Why Versioned SQL Beats Vector RAG for Agent Memory Systems

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #programming

3 min read

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Apr 26

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

#ai #nvidia #llm #api

3 min read

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Apr 26

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

#ai #llm #agents #architecture

2 min read

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Apr 26

The Context Window Is a Lie

#ai #llm #agents #architecture

2 min read

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Apr 26

The Context Window Lie

#ai #llm #architecture #transformers

5 min read

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Apr 25

How I Stopped My AI Agent From Reinventing the Wheel

#ai #agents #openclaw #claude

3 min read

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