JIRA Sprint Workflows and Git/GitHub Integration

Looking at JIRA’s issues and workflows as a graph of work units — covering the Sprint lifecycle, issue hierarchy, Git/GitHub integration patterns, and automation flows.

December 30, 2025 · 6 min read

GitHub Actions Fundamentals — Workflow, Job, Step

GitHub Actions seen as an event-driven automation engine — the three-layer abstraction of workflow / job / step, plus the operational details of triggers, runners, and secrets.

December 15, 2025 · 6 min read

Reading My Father's Poem '참회'

My father wrote a poem in Korean and called it 참회(懺悔), ‘Repentance.’ The full poem, followed by my short response.

December 4, 2025 · 4 min read

GitHub PRs and the Code Review Cycle

Looking at GitHub PRs as a collaboration layer added to Git’s change graph, and walking through the Code Review cycle, PR-level design, and merge strategies.

November 30, 2025 · 5 min read

Git Workflow Basics — Commits, Branches, Merge vs Rebase

Looking at Git as a graph of changes — and seeing how commit hygiene, branching strategy, and the merge-vs-rebase choice are all decisions about the shape of that graph.

November 15, 2025 · 5 min read

Profitability-Based Traffic Throttling Retrospective

Retrospective on building a system that automatically identifies low-performing SSP inventory and throttles traffic to improve contribution margin. Covers the evolution from Imp Cost Ratio to a predicted contribution margin rate approach.

October 15, 2025 · 3 min read

Designing and Operating SLAs for Low-Latency Services

An SLA isn’t kept by monitoring after the fact — it’s built by design and held by operation. Once the SLI for a low-latency service becomes p99 latency rather than availability, timeout budgets, caching, degradation, isolation, and load shedding build the SLA, while p99 SLOs, burn-rate alerting, headroom, deploy gates, and the review cycle hold it.

September 15, 2025 · 10 min read

Technical Indicators and Trading Signals

Covers technical indicators (RSI, SMA Cross, MACD, Bollinger Bands) for reading price movements, composite signal design, and a comparison of three strategy types across different time horizons.

September 1, 2025 · 5 min read

Portfolio Management and Factor Scoring

Covers factor scoring methods (Z-Score, Rank) for combining indicators into a single score, plus the basics of rebalancing and asset allocation.

August 15, 2025 · 4 min read

Momentum and Dividend

Covers the role of price momentum and dividend yield as factors in quant investing.

July 15, 2025 · 4 min read