Hello world
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This is the first post on the blog. Rather than open with a long introduction, here is what you will find here.
I am a platform engineer. Half the job is the path a team ships through — CI pipelines, containers, environments — and the other half is the application code that runs on it. I work in finance, on systems where throughput and failures are taken seriously.
What I will write about
This is not a journal. What I find worth writing down is this: when a problem takes longer than it should have, the cause is usually a small detail that was not written down anywhere. Those go here.
Likely subjects:
- Kubernetes and container behaviour that the docs cover in one line and that cost me three hours
- Decisions made while building a delivery path with Jenkins and Argo CD, and the ones I later regretted
- Patterns I keep running into on the Spring Boot side
- Development on Fedora: what works and what does not
Not every post will end with “here is how you should do it”. Sometimes “so that is how it behaves” is the whole finding.
About the site
The site is static, built with Astro, and posts live in the repository as MDX files. Publishing is a commit, which means corrections stay in the history too.
It is bilingual: English at the root, Turkish under /tr, with both versions
of a post sharing one filename. When a post has no translation, the language
switcher takes you to that language’s blog index rather than a dead link.
Every heading carries its own link, longer posts get a table of contents above the body, and the search page covers posts in both languages. You can also read everything over RSS:
https://selimardacevik.com/rss.xmlWhat’s next
The first technical post is coming soon. Until then, have a look at projects and the CV, and send an email if you want to ask about something.