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Onat Mercan’s Blog
The blog of Onat Yigit Mercan. Rust enthusiast, cloud infrastructure builder, and occasional explorer of computer science - from assembly to distributed systems.
Latest posts
Provisioning a Private Talos Kubernetes Cluster on Hetzner Cloud
This is a follow up to Private Networking on Hetzner Cloud with Tailscale
We lost our imagination
We lost our imagination. It’s not because of AI. Not everybody had it before AI, but the people who had it lost it too.
What can change the nature of an AI?
Lie: “PERSONALITY.md”
Private Networking on Hetzner Cloud with Tailscale
This is a follow up to Why I Built My Own Kubernetes Cluster
Why I Built My Own Kubernetes Cluster
I’ve been working as a platform engineer at Stack Overflow since 2022, designing platform components, writing documentation, and making developers’ lives easier. Recently, I moved to the infrastructure platform team. Now I’m in unfamiliar territory, trying to abstract away multi-cloud infrastructure details from other platform engineering teams. For years, I worked with Kubernetes professionally,…
Let’s implement a Bloom Filter
I am planning to create a series of blog posts that includes some literature research, implementation of various data structures and our journey of creating a distributed datastore in distrentic.io.
What I learned from my failed attempt of writing baremetal android in Rust
This post is focused mostly on the tools that I use while I failed to write a bootable kernel image in rust.
Anatomy of a Hack assembly program - Part 2
This is the second part of ‘Anatomy of a Hack assembly program’ series.
Anatomy of a Hack assembly program - Part 1
This blog series is based on nand2tetris book.