# Berkay Bindebir

> Technical Team Lead and backend engineer building distributed systems, event-driven platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. He writes from first-hand experience about backend engineering, distributed systems, reliability, cloud infrastructure, and engineering leadership.

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## Writing

- [Managing Distributed Workflows: Orchestration vs. Choreography](https://berkaybindebir.dev/posts/managing-distributed-workflows-orchestration-vs-choreography.md): Distributed workflows cannot eliminate semantic coupling. The architectural choice is how to implement that coupling without making it worse.
- [Hype-Driven Development: The Biggest Problem in Modern Software](https://berkaybindebir.dev/posts/hype-driven-development-the-biggest-problem-in-modern-software.md): Today, anything can go viral in seconds. Software development is no exception; we're just as influenced by trends and hype as any other industry.
- [How Adding 4x More Memory Saved Us 50% on Lambda Costs — Here’s Why](https://berkaybindebir.dev/posts/how-adding-4x-more-memory-saved-us-50-percent-on-lambda-costs.md): I ran into socket timeouts in a Lambda function that had always worked fine. The real cause wasn't the network — it was CPU starvation. The fix? Adding 4x more memory.
- [How I Built a Watermark Tool Using FFmpeg](https://berkaybindebir.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-watermark-tool-using-ffmpeg.md): Building a dynamic audio and video watermarking SaaS from FFmpeg and AWS Fargate to WebAssembly in the browser.
- [Deep Dive Node JS](https://berkaybindebir.dev/posts/deep-dive-node-js.md): Understanding V8 engine, process.binding(), and how LibUV manages the event loop and thread pool in Node.js.

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