# Omer's playground

> A blog by Omer Atagun. Hands-on notes from an engineering leader on Kubernetes and home labs, self-hosting, Rust, TypeScript and building software with AI coding agents.

These days i work at [SAP LeanIX](https://leanix.net) as an Engineering Manager for Team Cookies. If you'd wish, you can find recent details of my works in github and workplaces in linkedin.

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- Author: Omer Atagun (https://omeratagun.net/about/)
- GitHub: https://github.com/omeratagunn
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## Posts

- [Moving 20,000 workspaces between microservices with no incidents](https://omeratagun.net/blog/migration-in-complex-microservices/): How we moved bookmarks for 20,000 workspaces into the services that own them, across six teams: no API break, no downtime, no incidents, no data loss. (2026-10-18)
- [Sigilreach: nine days, a thousand commits and a medieval world that lives without me](https://omeratagun.net/blog/sigilreach-medieval-world-with-agents/): I started a realistic medieval survival and settlement game in Unity with a handful of AI coding agents. Nine days and 1,064 commits later, here is what the stack looks like, why URP and not HDRP, how the asset hunt went, and what it took to keep tests fast and the game from freezing. (2026-10-10)
- [Cameras, a local LLM, and a pile of wrong assumptions](https://omeratagun.net/blog/cameras-local-llm-wrong-assumptions/): I pointed a spare 3090 at four cameras and a house full of Home Assistant entities to build a fully local NVR with a local voice assistant. Most of what I assumed going in turned out to be wrong. Here is what actually held up. (2026-09-04)
- [From kubectl apply to sleeping well at night](https://omeratagun.net/blog/from-kubectl-to-sleeping-well/): How I migrated my entire home cluster from manual kubectl commands to a full GitOps setup with ArgoCD, HA, observability, and one-command disaster recovery. (2026-04-17)
- [TDD with AI](https://omeratagun.net/blog/tdd-with-ai/): How to design systems with AI while keeping your sanity (2026-02-07)
- [AI Coding Agents: Hands-On Test of Codex, Claude CLI & Gemini CLI](https://omeratagun.net/blog/ai-coding-agents-experiment/): Field notes from running three AI coding agents on two real-world projects. (2025-06-28)
- [5 days is enough](https://omeratagun.net/blog/5-days-enough/): From Pull Requests to Smart Blinds: A Week of Building with AI and Automation. Just because I had to be at home. (2025-05-09)
- [Home k8s cluster](https://omeratagun.net/blog/home-k8s-cluster/): How to overkill a home server (2025-05-02)
- [Testing with chatgpt](https://omeratagun.net/blog/testing-with-chatgpt/): How to write unit tests with a help of a bot (2023-11-29)
- [Software architect elevator](https://omeratagun.net/blog/software-architect-elevator/): A book that you should come back to from time to time (2023-07-08)
- [Digitalocean docker deployment](https://omeratagun.net/blog/digitalocean-vs-homeserver/): 5$ docker deployment for personal blog or a home server with 4 core cpu and 8gb ram. (2023-05-06)
- [What is Auto GPT](https://omeratagun.net/blog/what-is-autogpt/): Finally the first exciting project after some time. (2023-04-08)
- [Home server with cloudflare](https://omeratagun.net/blog/home-server-with-cloudflare/): Lets think of this bad boy a little bit. (2023-02-09)
- [ChatGPT and future](https://omeratagun.net/blog/chat-gpt-and-future/): Lets think of this bad boy a little bit. (2023-01-15)
- [How to deploy actix with docker](https://omeratagun.net/blog/how-to-deploy-actix-with-docker/): Lets make one image that can allow you to create test environment for your simple actix-web apps. (2022-12-23)
- [Rust and others](https://omeratagun.net/blog/rust-and-others/): Rust is about to be future, if hype continues (2022-12-11)
- [Amazon s3 alternative](https://omeratagun.net/blog/amazon-s3-alternative/): Amazon is known by its high prices, once you get yourself in, there is no escape to become broke. (2022-11-20)
- [NextJS + Prisma monolith](https://omeratagun.net/blog/nextjs-prisma-monolith/): Are we recurring back to monoliths again? (2022-11-10)
- [SurrealDB first look](https://omeratagun.net/blog/surreal-db-first-look/): When i have seen the promises of surrealdb, wanted to test it out quickly. (2022-09-17)
- [Typescript overview](https://omeratagun.net/blog/typescript-overview/): Lets dive into a field that light barely comes into (2022-09-11)
- [How to install rancher](https://omeratagun.net/blog/how-to-install-rancher/): Lets dive into a field that light barely comes into (2022-08-11)
- [Laravel octane roadrunner benchmark](https://omeratagun.net/blog/laravel-octane-benchmark/): You will be suprised (2022-08-06)
- [When and Why should you use rancher](https://omeratagun.net/blog/when-and-why-should-you-use-rancher/): Lets discover when we need a rancher and understand why we need it ? (2022-07-21)
- [Not just hello world](https://omeratagun.net/blog/not-just-hello-world/): Another initial blog post to be forgotten in time. Even though this blog will be mainly about my journey in tech/science, i felt need introducing my blog under this post (2022-07-03)

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