system-design – Page 4 – Türker Yıldırım

A year of an assistant in the editor, measured

Deep diveSeptember 3, 202514 min read

A year of using a model-backed assistant, and an attempt to say something specific about it. Every claim about this is a demonstration or a complaint.

Managing WordPress entirely through Composer

Deep diveAugust 21, 202515 min read

turkerdev/wp-composer, and an install where nothing is committed except a lock file. Core, themes and plugins as dependencies.

A build with no bundler

Deep diveJuly 31, 20259 min read

A site with 18 KB of JavaScript and a build pipeline sized for something larger. What a bundler provides, listed, and which of it is needed.

Two years of query logs, read once

Deep diveJune 18, 202510 min read

A slow query log rotating for two years and never aggregated, and performance work driven by whoever complained loudest.

Reading a codebase in a language I do not write

NoteMay 29, 20252 min read

A supplier’s open source client library, read to answer one question, without learning the language first. Reading unfamiliar code for one specific question is a different and more…

A licence that came back, and the migration we had prepared

Deep diveMay 25, 20259 min read

The first of May, an AGPL release, and a decision from April 2024 that can finally be closed — in the direction nobody planned for.

A package I published, and the API design I got wrong twice

Deep diveMay 19, 202516 min read

turkerdev/php-figma-api, a typed client for a third-party REST API, and two design mistakes that only appear once somebody else uses it.

A decision record for something we did not do

NoteMay 8, 20252 min read

A record of a rejected proposal, which is the kind nobody writes and the kind that saves the most time. The same proposal arriving twice in two years…

A dashboard rebuilt from the questions people ask

NoteApril 25, 20252 min read

A dashboard of fourteen panels, replaced by six, chosen by reading a quarter of incident messages. A dashboard built from available metrics answers what is measurable and a…

A pipeline that deploys on merge, and the four gates before it

Deep diveApril 18, 202510 min read

Eight deploys a week performed by a person, an hour after merge, by whoever was free. Continuous deployment needs confidence rather than automation.