Mevlut Kaan Karakoc — Engineering Blog https://kaankarakoc.com/blog/ Backend engineering notes on Go, distributed systems, Kafka, retries, and observability. en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:19:46 GMT Designing Distributed Systems That Don't Collapse Under Reality https://kaankarakoc.com/blog/distributed_systems_blog/ https://kaankarakoc.com/blog/distributed_systems_blog/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT A production-focused walkthrough of failure-first design in distributed systems and how to keep behavior safe under partial outages.