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 Architecture
PART 07
A Map of Architecture Styles: From Layered to Microservices, Which Style for What?
An architecture style is a set of constraints; with the axes of deployment-unit count and technical versus domain partitioning, layered, modular monolith, pipeline, microkernel, service-based, event-driven, space-based, SOA, microservices and Web-Queue-Worker fit on one map. Pipeline and AssemblyLoadContext-based microkernel examples, our own style table for Bookstore, and why Clean and Vertical Slice are code organization rather than styles.
7 Nov 2026
14 min
5
Backend
PART 04
The ASP.NET Core Middleware Pipeline: Ordering, Use, Run, Map and Your Own Middleware
We follow a request through the middleware rings and the response back out: Use, Run and Map, writing middleware as a class, the effect of ordering, the recommended order of built-in middleware and typical pitfalls.
4 Nov 2026
7 min
36