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[Reflections on MSA 2/6] Inter-Service Communication in MSA - How Should We Do It?
Previous: [Reflections on MSA 1/6] What is Microservices Architecture (MSA)? In the previous post, we explored the basic concepts, advantages, and disadvantages of Microservices Architecture (MSA). On...
January 15, 2026
[Reflections on MSA 1/6] What is MSA (Microservices Architecture)?
As developers, I think we all encounter moments when we find ourselves pondering about MSA (Microservices Architecture). Each time, we fall into various considerations. I’ve also had moments of contem...
January 14, 2026
Making LLM My Second Brain: Using Personal Blog as RAG with MCP Server
Hello! I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. Recently, AI, especially LLMs (Large Language Models), has been gaining significant attention among developers. Whi...
December 31, 2025
Solving GitHub Actions Free Tier Limits: Our Journey from Self-hosted Runners to Jenkins
Hello! I’m Jeongil Jeong, a 3-year backend developer working at a proptech platform. This is the story of trial and error we experienced while improving our CI/CD pipeline at the company. I’d like to ...
December 16, 2025
My Journey to Passing the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Exam
Introduction Hi, I’m Jeongil Jeong, a backend developer with 3 years of experience, currently working at a proptech platform. Containerization has become increasingly important in modern web server de...
December 1, 2025
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
October 16, 2025