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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.

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.NET Core Web API 36 Angular 31 JavaScript Basics 19 JavaScript Intermediate 18 JavaScript Advanced 16 TypeScript Basics 14 TypeScript Intermediate 14 TypeScript Advanced 12 Entity Framework Core 28 Dapper 16 Git & GitHub 29 Web Security (OWASP Top 10) 21 LLM Fundamentals 20 C# Fundamentals 20 Object-Oriented Programming in C# 16 C# Collections and Generics 11 LINQ 17 Asynchronous Programming in C# 17 Advanced C# 14 C# Versions 6 Solution Patterns 22 SOLID and Design Principles 12 Clean Code 13 Design Patterns 23 UML and Modeling 18 Introduction to Software Architecture 9 Clean, Onion and Hexagonal Architecture 8 Vertical Slice Architecture 6 Domain-Driven Design 12 CQRS and Event Sourcing 10 Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture 9 Modular Monolith 2 Microservices 10 UI Architecture Patterns 9 Architecture Decisions 7 System Design 15 Distributed Systems Fundamentals 11 Background Jobs and Scheduled Jobs 11 Working with Message Queues 14 Logging in .NET 10 Caching 10 Real-time Applications 9 ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages 13 CI/CD Fundamentals 8 GitHub Actions 16 Jenkins 12 Web Servers and Hosting 12 Deployment Strategies 9 Kubernetes 19 Authentication and Authorization 18
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What to Log and What Not To: A Logging Strategy for .NET and the Anatomy of a Good Log Event
Backend PART 01

What to Log and What Not To: A Logging Strategy for .NET and the Anatomy of a Good Log Event

A good log event is a single occurrence that answers its reader's question: it has a constant message template, meaningful property names and an EventId. We turn five bad log lines in the Bookstore order flow into three events and show level choice, double-logged exceptions and the cost of interpolation caught by CA2254 with real output.

8 Nov 2026 12 min 4
Logging in ASP.NET Core: ILogger, Log Levels, Structured Logging and Serilog
Backend PART 13

Logging in ASP.NET Core: ILogger, Log Levels, Structured Logging and Serilog

We write logs with ILogger<T> in ASP.NET Core: categories, log levels, filters via appsettings and environment variables, structured logging with message templates, scopes, the LoggerMessage source generator and the Serilog version that supports net6.0.

4 Nov 2026 8 min 32
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