A guide for successful people. Since 2013.
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Sınavı-Yerim is a blog that I've founded to help high school students with their exams and career choices. Also to guide university students and graduates.
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Published 200+ articles, visited 2.5 million times.
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Until the mid 2019, I was sharing articles weekly through email. I was not pleased with overall user experience and decided to develop a modern and minimalistic (thanks Medium!) page.
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I was not very experienced with all the technologies at first but learned to use them along the way.
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At the new blog page: It's one page React application. It connects to API developed with Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring MVC which is deployed to AWS EBS, and PostgreSQL deployed to AWS RDS. To provide faster UX, AWS Cloudfront CDN is integrated. For the upcoming membership feature, I'd need users to "Sign in Once" for multiple domains, Auth0 Single Sign On was the solution I've used.
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In Turkey, National University Entrance Exam takes place each year with 2 million participants. They take the exam to get into universities, preferably good ones.
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I was not coming from a good high school, in fact it was the least good one (don't want to say worst) at my surroundings. Regardless, I was aimed for Computer Engineering at one of the best universities. I was interested in computers since my 4'th degree at primary school.
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For my goal, I had to get into the top 8.000 people among 2 million students. I was failed with 50.000. I was persistent, took the risk and studied hard, more than ever. And achieved the top 0.1% (2.7k-3.3k).
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Right after people got very curious about my strategies. I was responding them with paragraphs but then thought why not publish my responses publicly and share them the link. That's the story of Sınavı-Yerim.
Ever since, I continue helping people to achieve success through sharing articles.