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Kakao Launches Focused Mid-Level Frontend Hiring for Harmony Development Team

Kakao is conducting a focused hiring campaign for mid-level frontend engineers in the Harmony Development Team, which manages its news content platform, with applications closing on April 11.

·2022.03.21 00:00

Kakao Hiring Android Developers for Ad Development Team

Recruitment for AdFit SDK, Pixel SDK, and ad creative UI/UX development roles is open until April 11.

·2022.03.18 00:00

Kakao FE Platform Team Reveals Large-Scale Service Development and Tech Stack

The Kakao FE Platform Team revealed a culture of mutual growth for services and developers, centered on a React and Vue.js tech stack and a crew collaboration rate reaching 90%.

·2022.03.18 00:00

Kakao FE Kay Presents 5 Principles for Effective Code Reviews

Kakao FE Kay shared tips on reviewer attitudes and PR template usage based on their experience with new hire onboarding education.

·2022.03.17 00:00

Kakao Intensifies Hiring of Experienced iOS Developers for Client Team, Offering KakaoTalk Development Experience

Kakao is currently conducting a focused hiring campaign for iOS professionals with 3+ years of experience for its Client Team, with applications open until April 11.

·2022.03.17 00:00

Kakao Unveils 6-Week Technical Onboarding Program for New iOS Developers

Supports job adaptation through practice-oriented projects covering Swift basics, Delegation patterns, and Auto Layout principles

·2022.03.16 00:00

Kakao Shares Review of 6-Week Technical Onboarding for New Server Hires (New Crew)

Introduced a 6-week curriculum and collaboration culture that helped entry-level hires with no experience grow into server developers using Java and Spring.

·2022.03.16 00:00

Kakao FE New Hire Recruitment: Experience Report on 6-Week Technical Onboarding

It detailed a practice-oriented training program spanning six weeks, featuring missions, pair programming, and code reviews in collaboration with Code Squad.

·2022.03.15 00:00

Kakao 2022 New Hire Android Onboarding Retrospective: Learning Clean Architecture and DI

A retrospective by Kakao's 2022 new hires on their 6-week learning journey of Clean Architecture and DI (Hilt, Koin), featuring practical assignments such as implementing a To Do app, a Note app, and the if(kakao) 2021 website.

·2022.03.15 00:00

Kakao Reveals 6-Week Technical Onboarding Program for 2022 New Developers

Hands-on training was conducted for four job roles, including Server and Front-End, featuring code reviews and pair programming by senior colleagues.

·2022.03.03 00:00

Experience Report: Migrating Angular E2E Tests from Protractor to Cypress

This article shares a case study of building Angular E2E tests by migrating from Protractor to Cypress to overcome Protractor's limitations and improve test reliability and execution speed.

·2022.02.25 00:00

KakaoTV Builds Redis Cluster Using Kubernetes Operator Pattern

Automated scale-in/out and HA by applying host network and pod affinity.

·2022.02.09 00:00

Kakao Releases Problem Explanations for the 2022 New Graduate Recruitment Second Coding Test

Kakao has released the approach and optimization strategies for the game matching system problem from the second coding test of its 2022 new graduate recruitment.

·2022.02.04 00:00

Kakao Publishes Case Study on Optimizing Spark AQE with Coalescing Post Shuffle Partitions

With AQE enabled, the number of Shuffle partitions decreased from 10000 to 118, and Peak Memory dropped from 634.8GB to 332.0GB.

·2022.01.18 00:00

Full Solutions Released for 2022 Kakao New Graduate Recruitment First Coding Test

Solutions and accuracy rate data for all 7 problems from the 2022 Kakao new graduate recruitment first coding test have been released.

·2022.01.14 00:00

Kakao Agile Clinic Enhances Completeness Through Customer Participation and Iterative Incremental Development

Requirements were identified using a pre-event question platform, and broadcast quality was improved through rehearsal retrospectives.

·2022.01.12 00:00

Kakao Enhances Webtoon Related Recommendations with Content-Based Filtering

KakaoWebtoon improved recommendation accuracy by combining text, image, and art style embeddings with a multi-armed bandit algorithm.

·2021.12.27 00:00

Kakao Reveals Operational Status and Future Plans for Shared Kafka and RabbitMQ Platform, Including SaaS Transition

Kakao's infrastructure team introduced the 24-hour monitoring system for its shared Kafka and RabbitMQ platform and the Kafka Web service currently in beta, while disclosing future improvement plans such as SaaS transition for dedicated clusters and Kubernetes migration.

·2021.12.23 00:00

Kakao DKOS Reveals etcd Raft Algorithm and Maintenance Strategies for Kubernetes Live Upgrade

Kakao DKOS detailed the etcd Raft algorithm, Learner state, compaction, and backup strategies to enable zero-downtime upgrades.

·2021.12.20 00:00

Kakao Enterprise Developer's Retrospective on Pair Programming: Pivotal Methodology and Remote Tools

A developer from Kakao Enterprise shares their experience with XP methodology and pair programming learned at Pivotal Labs, along with tips for using tools in a remote work environment.

·2021.12.01 00:00