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Company Catalog
Who we are, what we do and how we work — the full Graf Clouds catalog in English.
Şirket Kataloğu
Kim olduğumuz, ne yaptığımız ve nasıl çalıştığımız — Graf Clouds kataloğu, Türkçe.
ISO 27001 Certificate
Our information-security management certification — verified and current.
Company Presentation
The Graf Clouds pitch deck — services, products and reference architecture.
Service Catalog
Every service we offer with scope and delivery model, in one structured sheet.
IT Standartları
ISO 27001 ile hizalı IT güvenlik standartları seti — ağ, erişim, uç nokta, veri ve yazılım güvenliği, Türkçe.
60+ articles · 36 war stories · 48 training challenges — two decades of cloud, DevOps & SecOps engineering, now fused with AI.
Lessons Learned: 36 DevOps War Stories
36 engineering war stories and lessons learned — collected from our engineers and the wider industry.
Read → TrainingTraining: Quizzes & DevOps Challenges
AWS certification practice quizzes and 48 interview-style DevOps scenarios with progressive answer reveal.
Read → AIAI Operations in Practice: n8n, LLMs and RAG
How to run AI in operations with n8n workflows, LLM-assisted alert summaries and runbook drafting, RAG over internal docs,...
Read → DevOpsInfrastructure as Code and GitOps
Terraform state, modules and workspaces done right, policy as code, drift detection and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD and Flux...
Read → SecOpsIncident Response: A Practical Playbook
A practical incident response playbook: severity levels, incident commander and comms roles, runbooks, SLO-driven alerting and...
Read → SecOpsISO 27001 Readiness: What It Actually Involves
What ISO 27001 readiness actually involves: ISMS scope, risk assessment, Annex A controls, building an evidence culture and the...
Read → ChecklistAWS Security & Operations Checklist
An interactive 98-point AWS audit checklist covering IAM, EC2, storage, RDS, load balancing, networking, SecOps, governance and...
Read → CloudCloud Cost Cutting Guide
A practical guide to cutting cloud costs: right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances, storage lifecycle policies, egress...
Read → CloudCloud Migration Roadmap: The 7R Framework
A practitioner's cloud migration roadmap: the correct 7R framework, discovery, landing zones, DMS-based data migration, cutover...
Read → DevOpsCI/CD: The Complete Guide
A practitioner's guide to CI/CD: pipeline anatomy, GitHub Actions workflows on Node 22, OIDC-based AWS Lambda deployment, testing...
Read → CloudWhat Is AWS Lambda? Pricing and Limits
What AWS Lambda is, how request and GB-second pricing works, cold starts and SnapStart, runtime deprecations, and the workloads...
Read → DevOpsDockerfile Best Practices for 2026
Modern Dockerfile guidance: multi-stage builds, layer caching, non-root users, pinned digests, BuildKit secrets, and scanning with...
Read → DevOpsDocker Compose Best Practices in 2026
Docker Compose best practices for the Compose Specification era: healthchecks, depends_on conditions, profiles, override files,...
Read → DevOpsWhere to Store Docker Images in 2026
The 2026 container registry landscape — ECR, Artifact Registry, ACR, GHCR, Harbor — plus tag immutability, retention, signing, and...
Read → DevOpsWhen to Use Docker (and When Not To)
A practical decision framework for Docker in 2026: where containers genuinely pay off, where they add cost, and how containers...
Read → KubernetesHow to Use Minikube (vs kind and k3d)
A hands-on minikube quickstart for 2026 using the Docker driver — plus honest guidance on when kind or k3d is the better local...
Read → DevOpsMicroservices: When They Earn Their Cost
When microservices earn their operational cost, how to decompose a monolith safely, and why most teams should start with a modular...
Read → DevOpsWhat Is a REST API? Constraints and Codes
The actual REST constraints — statelessness, cacheability, uniform interface — plus CRUD mappings, HTTP status codes, and when...
Read → SecOpsHow to Secure an API: A 2026 Checklist
A practitioner's guide to API security in 2026: TLS 1.3, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT pitfalls, rate limiting, mTLS, API gateways, and the...
Read → DatabasesWhat Is Redis? What It's Used For & How It Works (2026)
What is Redis and what is it used for? A practical 2026 guide: how Redis works, whether it's a real database, caching,...
Read → DevOpsRabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS? Queues Explained
How message queues really behave: RabbitMQ exchanges and acknowledgements, delivery guarantees, idempotency, dead-letter queues,...
Read → DatabasesWhen to Choose MongoDB Over PostgreSQL
An honest 2026 framework for choosing MongoDB over PostgreSQL: document-model fit, multi-document transactions, sharding, and a...
Read → SecOpsSIEM and Threat Detection in 2026
How modern SIEM works in 2026: detection engineering, SOAR automation, ML-driven analytics, MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and...
Read → DevOpsBest Monitoring Tools in 2026: Top 10 Compared
The best monitoring tools in 2026, honestly compared: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch,...
Read → DevOpsAutomated Testing Strategies in DevOps
A practical guide to automated testing in CI/CD: the test pyramid, integration tests with real dependencies, contract testing,...
Read → KubernetesKubernetes in Real Life: 15 Critical Scenarios and Solutions
Master Kubernetes troubleshooting with real-world scenarios covering debugging, security, architecture, performance and...
Read → AIWhich AI Is Better for What? 2026 Guide
A practitioner's July 2026 map of which AI tool fits which job: coding, writing, image and video generation, transcription,...
Read → AI5 Big Myths About AI's Economic Impact
Is AI unprofitable, a productivity mirage, or a job killer? We walk through five common claims about the AI economy and what the...
Read → AWSWhy Is AWS Support So Slow — and How to Get Faster Answers
AWS support cases sitting unassigned for weeks, especially around Bedrock and quota requests? A 2026 field guide to why it happens...
Read → AWSAWS Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances: Which One, When
What each covers, the RDS gap, sizing your commitment, and the mistakes that lock in waste for three years — a practical decision...
Read → AWSHow Much Does an AWS Migration Cost? A Realistic Budget Guide
The 5 cost drivers, hidden line items, the 30/40/30 phase split, and why fixed-price beats time-and-materials — a realistic guide.
Read → DevOpsIn-House DevOps Team or Managed Services? The Real Cost Comparison
The 24/7 on-call math, an honest cost comparison, the hybrid model, and when hiring genuinely is the right answer.
Read → SecOpsYour AWS Account Got Compromised: The First 24 Hours
A compromise playbook from engineers who have handled real incidents: first-hour containment, persistence hunting, the AWS billing...
Read → CloudHow to Choose an AWS Partner: 7 Questions and 5 Red Flags
The 7 questions that separate real senior teams from body shops, 5 proposal red flags, and what partner badges do and don't mean.
Read → CloudAWS Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO and the 4 Strategies Compared
RTO/RPO explained, the 4 DR strategies with cost trade-offs, immutable cross-account backups, and the mistakes that turn incidents...
Read → AIClaude Opus 5 Benchmarks: What the Numbers Actually Tell You
The full comparison table, the three numbers that matter, where GPT still wins, and what it means for teams running AI in...
Read → DevOpsWhat Actually Gets You Hired in DevOps: Judgment, Not Certificates
Certificates get CVs past filters — what gets people hired is defensible judgment. The gap, why it exists, and a concrete practice...
Read → SecOpsShared AI Chats Are Public Web Pages — Audit Yours Today
The Share button is a Publish button. What actually happens when you share an AI chat, the corporate exposure it creates, and a...
Read → DevOpsMicroservice Sprawl: The Operations Bill Nobody Budgets
700 microservices = high cortisol, one monolith = peace — funny because it's half true. The real per-service bill, the...
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