Port an MCP server to the stateless spec on Kubernetes: a step-by-step migration

Porting the transport to the v2 SDK is mostly a version bump. The real migration is deciding where handle state lives, and leaving it in pod memory brings the old failure back behind an HTTP 200 that transport retries never see.

August 18, 2026 · 16 min · Hoon Jo

49% Cost Reduction on a Large EKS Cluster: Clearing Infrastructure Debt by Decommissioning V1 and Rebuilding V2

~$3,240/month, ~$38,880/year saved (~49%). Consolidated EKS 1.32/1.33 to 1.35, ArgoCD v1 to v3, and Kafka Zookeeper to KRaft in one shot while reducing nodes from 25 to 15. Achieved fully zero-downtime cutover with Route53 Weighted Routing.

April 23, 2026 · 13 min · Hoon Jo