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The latest AI and developer news from Kakao, with short summaries.
Visit website →AI Milestone Experiment Results: 68% of Developers Say Development Without AI Is Difficult… Design Phase Utilization Surges
Pilot results from Tech Strategy's AI Milestone program show that 68.4% of developers find it difficult to develop without AI tools, while the proportion experiencing time savings through AI use in the design phase rose by 21.2%p over three months.
Kakao OLIVE Cuts Manual Mapping by 95% with AI Integration; License Review Time Drops from 60 to 10 Minutes
Kakao's open-source automation management system 'OLIVE' reduced manual mapping items by 95% and cut average license review time from 60 minutes to under 10 minutes through the introduction of AI agents.
Kakao Releases Case Collection on Integrating SDLC for AI-Native Transformation
Kakao has released a technical blog series detailing its AI-based reengineering vision and case studies applied across all stages of the SDLC.
MySQL JSON vs TEXT Type Performance Comparison: TEXT for Simple Retrieval, JSON for Function Usage
When storing identical JSON data, the TEXT type uses 25 bytes, while the JSON type uses 35 bytes including metadata.
Kakao Opens Public Recruitment for 20 AI Ambassadors
Ambassadors will serve for three months starting in October, enjoying early access to new products and offline meetup benefits.
Kakao Makers Solves SSR Load with Next.js ISR and Redis External Caching
Achieved a 4.6x improvement in TPS and a 4x reduction in response time, with additional optimization via Nginx static resource serving.
Kakao Makers Builds Process-Level Monitoring Pipeline for Next.js SSR Servers
Kakao Makers built a process-level monitoring pipeline using PM2, Grafana Alloy, and TSCoke to overcome the limitations of OS-level monitoring for Next.js SSR servers.
Kakao Releases Beta of 'PlayMCP', an MCP Server Testing and Registration Platform
Kakao has released the beta version of 'PlayMCP', a developer platform that supports Remote MCP server registration and AI chat testing.
Kakao Reveals Results of AI-Native Transformation Experiment… Developer Productivity Improved by Up to 100%
Confirmed average 50% to maximum over 100% productivity improvement in collaboration environments based on legacy code
Analysis of the Internal Structure and Performance Impact of the MySQL 8.0 Instant DDL Algorithm
There are conditions where it cannot be used, such as the maximum limit of 64 for ROW_VERSION and the presence of FTS indexes.
Kakao to Host if(kakao)25 Conference, Revealing KakaoTalk Overhaul and KANANA Model Achievements
The conference will be held at the Kakao AI Campus in Yongin from September 23 to 25, with registration opening on August 28.
Kakao Releases Kanana-1.5 Reasoning Performance Enhancement Research… Proposes SFT and RL Optimization Strategies
AIME benchmark performance was improved through high learning rates in the SFT stage and relaxed clipping strategies in RL.
The Hackers' Olympics: A DEFCON 33 CTF Finals Challenge
This records the challenges experienced while participating in the DEFCON 33 CTF finals.
Kakao Unveils 'AI Easy Settlement' Feature to Automate Corporate Card Reimbursements
By applying the Kanana model, it achieves a 98% receipt recognition rate and automatically recommends settlement categories.
Internal Structure of InnoDB Redo Log in MySQL 5.7: MTR Lifecycle and Mutex-Based Operation Principles
This document analyzes the lifecycle of MTR (Mini-Transaction) creation and commit within the InnoDB Redo Log of MySQL 5.7, as well as the concurrency control mechanism via Mutex when recording to the Redo Log Buffer.
Kakao's Internal Hackathon '10K' Cuts AI-Assisted Development Time from 24 Hours to 10 Hours
Three backend developers won by completing a Chrome extension in 10 hours using vibe coding.
Kakao Reveals Spark Job Design for Consistency Checks Across ~300 CDC Pipelines
Kakao has revealed a Spark job design featuring four-stage modularization and design patterns, including Reader and Translator, to ensure data reliability across approximately 300 CDC pipelines.
Kakao Reveals Spark Job Optimization Strategies for CDC Consistency Checks
Kakao shares its Spark job development case study, applying MySQL scan mode tuning, Iceberg maintenance, caching, and local mode optimization to handle large-scale consistency checks across hundreds of tables.
Kakao Releases Open-Source Lightweight Multimodal AI 'Kanana-1.5-v-3b' Available for Commercial Use
Kakao has released the lightweight multimodal language model 'Kanana-1.5-v-3b' as open source for commercial use, achieving superior performance compared to competing models on Korean benchmarks.
Kakao Releases 'Kanana-1.5-15.7B-A3B', an MoE Model Achieving Dense 8B-Level Performance with 3B Active Parameters
Kakao has open-sourced 'Kanana-1.5-15.7B-A3B', a model utilizing an MoE structure to achieve performance comparable to Dense 8B models with only 3B active parameters.