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What is Manticore Search? Configuration, Setup, and Practical Application

Hello. I’m Jeongil Jeong, working as a backend developer at a PropTech platform. “We need a search feature.” When you hear this, one name probably pops into most developers’ heads. That is Elasticsear...

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November 25, 2025

APIs Slowing Down After Deployment: Improving JVM Cold Start Problem by 85%

Introduction Recently, our team migrated from a Docker Compose-based production environment to Kubernetes. It was a choice to properly utilize features needed in an MSA environment, such as scalabilit...

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November 18, 2025

Have I Embraced the Future? - How Developers Collaborate with AI Coding Tools

Hello. I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. These days, the weight of AI coding tools among developers is gradually increasing. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Clau...

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October 25, 2025

Changed MySQL Column Type from bigint to varchar and It Got 8x Slower...! : Procedure Performance Degradation Troubleshooting

Introduction Hello. I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. Today, I’d like to share an interesting performance issue that occurred in our service and the resol...

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October 20, 2025

From 16 Repositories to One - MSA Multi-Module Migration Story

Introduction Hello. I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. In March 2025, I joined the team and went through the process of converting 16 backend projects mana...

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October 16, 2025

3 Ways for Developers to Quickly Adapt to a New Company

Hello. I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. Job changes are not easy for anyone. New codebase, unfamiliar team culture, unknown business domain… I was also a...

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September 30, 2025

From No Dev Server to GitOps: My Journey of Introducing Kubernetes from Scratch

Hello. I’m Jeong Jeong-il, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a PropTech platform. Today, I’d like to share the process of migrating our MSA services, which were running on a legacy Docker enviro...

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July 24, 2025

Is Gradual MSA Transition an Illusion? - Battling with Tightly Coupled Legacy Services

Hello, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. I joined the team recently in March, and like many companies, our team was undertaking the grand journey of trans...

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July 21, 2025

Toby's Meetup Report: 31-Year Developer's Message on How to Live as a Developer in the AI Era

Yesterday (July 10), I attended a meetup titled [31-Year Developer’s Message on “How to Live as a Developer in the AI Era”] . It was a lecture by Toby hosted by Inflearn, and it was time where I coul...

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July 11, 2025

From On-Premises to Cloud - A Zero-Downtime Migration Story

Hello, I’m Jeong Jeong-il, a 3rd-year backend developer working at a PropTech platform. In this post, I’d like to share my experience migrating a monolithic server operating in an on-premises environm...

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July 10, 2025