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I’m Jeongil Jeong, Backend Developer

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How Does a Service Earn Its Users' Trust — Treating Reliability as a Promise, Not a Gut Feeling

Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer working at a proptech platform. This post is less about code or a specific technology, and more about a question that wouldn’t leave my head for a while. “Ho...

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May 27, 2026

My Experience Passing the ISTQB CTFL (Certified Tester Foundation Level) Exam

Introduction Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer with 3 years of experience. I recently passed the ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) certification, and I’d like to share my experie...

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April 29, 2026

Building an AI Property Recommendation System — How We Handle 'Recommend me a new apartment near Gangnam Station, around 30 pyeong'

Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer at a proptech platform. It seems like many companies these days are thinking hard about how to integrate AI into their services in ways that deliver real val...

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March 25, 2026

API Performance P95 7s → 0.1s Backend Optimization — Finding the Bottleneck Was Harder Than Fixing It

Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer working at a proptech platform. One day, as usual, I was checking the Grafana dashboard for monitoring. The average response times were mostly within a few h...

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March 4, 2026

CI Took 45 Minutes After Switching to Modular Monolith - Optimizing Our Spring Test Pipeline by 77%

Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer working at a proptech platform. In a previous post, I wrote about how I, as the sole remaining backend developer, consolidated 13 microservices into a modula...

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February 27, 2026