Blog
Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Series
.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
Software Design
PART 13
Deployment Diagrams: Nodes, Artifacts, Execution Environments and a Docker/Azure Topology
A deployment diagram shows which nodes and execution environments the software runs on, which artifact is placed where, and over which protocol and port the nodes talk. In this post we draw the HR Portal's docker compose development environment and its Azure production topology, and build the «manifest» bridge between artifacts and components.
7 Nov 2026
10 min
6
Backend
PART 31
Containerizing an ASP.NET Core Web API with Docker and Setting Up CI/CD with GitHub Actions
We containerize an ASP.NET Core Web API with a multi-stage Dockerfile: dotnet publish, the layer cache, .dockerignore, ports and environment settings; then we build a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that tests the code and pushes the image to ghcr.io.
4 Nov 2026
9 min
49