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Our organization values the research and development (R&D) efforts of our team members and aims to incorporate these contributions into performance reviews. It's important that individual R&D activities not only pursue personal growth but also align with our team and organizational objectives.

How R&D contributes to Performance review

Discover how the Dwarves community fosters a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. With a monthly reward pool of up to 2500 ICY, contributors are recognized for sharing valuable insights, especially in areas like AI/LLM, Golang, and more. Get involved and grow with us.

Record and reward sharing at Dwarves

To make sure that project’s progress is aligned with the team plan, we collect artifacts every 3 months and save as record of what was done.

Back up Artifact

The checklist shows how the project will be archive

Project Archive

The checklist outline the criteria of a project case study article

Project Case Study

The checklist shows the rule of communication in a project

Project Communication

The checklist shows the process of project handover

Project Handover

The checklist shows the process of project initialization

Project Initialization

How we conduct insightful delivery report that ensure transparency, improve team performance, and enhance client relationships

How to conduct delivery report

Our Tech Labs is a hub of continuous learning and application of advanced technologies. This program is designed to celebrate contributions at various levels, from enhancing knowledge to contributing to business growth.

Reward model & nomination

Conduct a 1-on-1 session

The checklist presents how to prepare for a talk

Giving a talk checklist

Run an effective performance review

New members joining our Labs team can be recommended either personally by an existing team member or through a development plan survey. Once onboarded, each new member is paired with a mentor who provides guidance on our operational practices within the team, specifically in relation to a chosen research topic. The initial probation period for new members is set to one month.

Labs - New Member Onboarding

Explore our November 2023 Labs Roadmap highlighting innovative technology projects and challenges for the upcoming month. Key focus areas include WebAssembly (WASM), Passwordless Authentication, Rust, AI, MPC, and UI practices.

Labs Roadmap (Nov 23 update)

This workflow consolidates how new tech is introduced through the Labs team and how it gets processed to Consulting team to apply for projects and bring awareness of our tech expertise.

Labs x Consulting Workflow

In this memo, I want to share with you my thought process behind our security guideline for Dwarves. This is a critical aspect for a software company that aims to establish trusted partnerships with clients. They rely on us because we take the security of their ideas and data seriously.

How I came up with our Security Standard

Learn how blue-green deployment reduces downtime and risk by switching traffic between identical environments, improving software reliability and flexibility for seamless updates.

Radio Talk 60 Blue Green Deployment

Discover what full-stack engineering truly means, exploring how skilled developers blend frontend, backend, and infrastructure knowledge to create seamless, user-focused software solutions.

Our View On Fullstack Engineering

The Dwarves team switched from Yarn to pnpm for faster, more efficient package management, improving development speed and saving disk space across their projects and clients.

Adoption Of Pnpm

The dark mode feature uses local storage to store a user's preference for future usage. The problem is that when the dark mode is enabled and the page is reloaded, there's a flicker of a white background all over the page before it turns dark. This happens for a fraction of a second and doesn't look natural.

Dark mode flickers a white background for a fraction of a second

Focus trap is a web technique to improve accessibility by forcing keyboard focus inside a DOM element, to prevent the user navigating outside that element.

Focus trap

`inert` is a boolean HTML property that makes the browser ignore the user input events for an element, including focus events and events from assistive technologies.

HTML inert

Micro Frontends is an architectural style where independently deliverable frontend applications are composed into a greater whole.

Micro Frontends Microservices For Frontend Development

Parallelism in JavaScript is a technique to improve the performance of web applications by executing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Parallelism in JavaScript

Optimize JavaScript performance with code splitting techniques like route-based splitting, lazy loading, and dynamic imports

Code splitting

Code splitting in React

Learn React composition patterns with coverage of HOCs, render props, compound components, and custom hook

Component composition patterns

Component composition patterns in React

Learn how to integrate design systems in React applications with comprehensive coverage of design tokens, atomic components, and accessibility standards.

Design system integration

Design system integration in react

React hooks architecture with in-depth coverage of custom hooks, state management, and side effects handling.

Hook architecture

Hook architecture in react

React rendering strategies with in-depth coverage of client-side rendering (CSR), server-side rendering (SSR), and static site generation (SSG).

Rendering strategies

Rendering strategies in React

Discover state management strategies, best practices, and when to use each approach for scalable, efficient React applications

State management strategy

State management strategy in React

React testing with unit, integration, and end-to-end approaches

Testing strategies

Testing strategies in React

Frontend development has become increasingly complex over the years, and with it, the need for efficient state management.

Tackling Server State complexity in Frontend Development

The key to improving your website speed is to understand where the bottlenecks are, and how much time each step takes.

The fundamental of web performance

Using the correct HTML element can significantly improve the accessibility of your website.

Using Correct Html Element To Increase Website Accessibility

Actually, the DOM is not slow. Adding or removing a DOM node is not much more than setting a property on the JS object. However, _layout_ is slow. Imagine adding a DOM node changes the height of the document, it would invoke a bunch of [rendering processes](https://web.dev/rendering-performance/) to redraw the screen. And all the complex algorithms behind the those processes makes any changes in DOM potentially expensive.

Why DOM manipulation is slow?

React and Vue, two popular front-end frameworks, both use Virtual DOM to improve page rendering efficiency. Understanding the concept of Virtual DOM sheds light on an important aspect of performance optimization on the client side.

Why Virtual DOM is fast?

We pride ourselves on being a team of seasoned technology experts, passionate about crafting innovative solutions for our clients. With years of experience in the technology industry, we understand the importance of selecting the right tools and technologies to deliver exceptional results. In today's fast-paced world, staying ahead of the competition requires building and deploying features quickly without sacrificing quality or stability.

Why We Chose Our Tech Stack Accelerating Development With A Robust Frontend Solution

When working with web development, communicating between a main window and an embedded iframe is often necessary for various tasks, such as content creation or widget implementation. This communication can occur between windows and iframes with the same origin or across different origins.

Window and iframe communication

Zaplib is a frontend framework that helps to port your JS/TS app to Rust/Wasm. This idea was found after the founder's painful work at https://webviz.io when he had to use a bundle of manual memory management techniques such as ArrayBuffers, WebWorkers for performance optimization. Back up with the assumption that an intricate web app like Figma also uses Wasm, they thought there would be a lot of companies experiencing a similar performance issue with their applications and those companies would be keen on using their new tool to 10x speed up the apps.

Zaplib post-mortem

An overview of adversarial prompting in prompt engineering, focusing on understanding risks associated with Large Language Models (LLMs) and strategies for mitigating them.

Adversarial Prompting in Prompt Engineering

This map of content (MoC) outlines the critical components required to design and build a large language model (LLM) system, focusing on architecture, model customization, safeguarding, performance evaluation, and more.

§ Building LLM system

This article explores chunking strategies to handle context limitations in Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT. It covers preprocessing data, selecting chunk sizes, and how to maintain coherence in various content types such as unstructured, Markdown, and LaTeX.

Chunking strategies to overcome context limitation in LLM

An overview of how to implement long-term memory in a ChatGPT-based chatbot using a Vector Database (VectorDB) to store conversation history and retrieve the most relevant past interactions.

Storing Long-Term Memory in ChatGPT Using VectorDB

An overview of foundation models, their versatility in generative AI tasks, and their impact across various domains like NLP, image generation, and scientific research. The article highlights the benefits, challenges, and future potential of these models.

Foundation Models: The Latest Advancement in AI

An exploration of query caching in Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on how semantic vector databases can drastically improve efficiency and reduce computational costs by reusing cached answers for semantically similar queries.

Query Caching for Large Language Models

An overview of self-refinement, a technique where Large Language Models (LLMs) evaluate and improve their own output without the need for supervised data or reinforcement learning.

LLM's Accuracy - Self Refinement

Learn how to choose the right AI model for your needs. Explore key factors like accuracy, privacy, and cost. Compare commercial vs open-source options and API vs self-hosting approaches.

Model selection

Discover how the rapid surge in artificial intelligence, led by models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, is reshaping industries and democratizing AI development. This article explores the rise of model-as-a-service, the economic impact of AI, and how accessible APIs are transforming productivity, creativity, and innovation across sectors.

The rise of AI applications with LLM

Explore the diverse applications of large language models (LLMs) and AI in both enterprise and consumer sectors. Learn about key use cases across data analysis, content creation, healthcare, education, and more.

Use cases for LLM applications

A high-level overview of how to implement a holistic approach to securing your application platform.

A Holistic: Guide to Security

Discover how our two-week MVP harnesses AI-driven, real-time voice processing to streamline interviews, reduce bias, and accelerate hiring success

Building MVP for AI-driven interview platform

A technical case study detailing the implementation of an AI chatbot agent in a project management platform. Learn how the team leveraged LangChain, LangGraph, and GPT-4 to build a multi-agent system using the supervisor-worker pattern. 

Building chatbot agent to streamline project management

A technical case study of creating an automated system that downloads videos, processes audio, and generates transcripts using AI services like Groq and OpenAI.

Building data pipeline for OGIF transcriber

A technical case study for implementing centralized monitoring for a trading platform using Grafana and Prometheus, focusing on real-time alerts, data integrity, and resource optimization to prevent financial losses.

Setup centralized monitoring system for Hedge Foundation trading platform

Discover how a trading platform mitigated database access risks, enhanced security, and ensured data integrity through role-based access control, network isolation, MFA, and robust logging. Learn about the strategies and tools, like Teleport, that transformed operational efficiency and reinforced client trust.

Database hardening for a trading platform

Discover the technical strategies behind optimizing a Binance trading platform, reducing initial load times to under 1 second for enhanced trader productivity.

Optimizing initial load time for a Trading Platform

The past six months have been packed with many improvements to our Discord server from new standards and automation to engaging activities and rewards. Take a moment to reflect on our journey so far, and let's get excited about what we'll accomplish together before the year ends.

State of Dwarves: 2024 Semi-annual Review

We want to demonstrate and encourage individual and organizational learning, where both gaining and sharing knowledge is prioritized, valued, and rewarded. Learning is an ongoing process that never ends in our fast-moving industry.

Forward Engineering 2022

As we look back on the past month, we're excited to share our latest engineering report, which highlights our recent achievements, projects, and insight in March 2023.

March 2023

Forward Engineering March 2023

As we look back on the past month, we're excited to share our latest engineering report, which highlights our recent achievements, projects, and insights in May 2023.

May 2023

Forward Engineering May 2023

As we usher in the month of June, we embrace the ever-changing landscape of technological innovation, and focus on a central theme:LLM in Production.

June 2023

Forward Engineering June 2023

Our adventure until now has been incredibly thrilling, with a strong focus on 'LLM in Production.' Now, we shift our attention to a topic that is always important and never outdated: **Fullstack Engineering**.

August 2023

Forward Engineering August 2023

As we step into the exciting opportunities of October, we are at a crucial point in the ever-changing world of technology. Our adventure until now has been for the most part very exciting, with a strong focus on 'Full-stack engineering’ Now, we shift our attention to a topic that is prolific and always true: Open-source.

October 2023

Forward Engineering October 2023

We have focused on revamping how we learn, familiarize, and work with tech. We are excited to announce that we have updated our Forward Engineering to better reflect the feedback and insights from our Labs team, Operations Team, and Consulting Team.

November 2023

Forward Engineering November 2023

December 2023

Forward Engineering December 2023

In Q3/2024 Forward Engineering, we explore new tech stacks, engineering excellence, and key trends from the tech market over the past three months, with a focus on AI. Learn about tools like Dify, LangGraph, RAG, and more as we share our experiments and insights. Whether you’re interested in AI-driven workflows or tech market trends like the surge in AI startups and hiring demand.

September 2024

Forward Engineering September 2024

AI agents, talent shifts, & market dynamics: Explore tech trends in AI, blockchain, & software engineering. Discover key insights & analysis.

Forward Engineering Feb 2025

Here are some of the few trends we are seeing across the industry, in our projects, as well as our community. This market report isn't exhaustive, at least just yet, with certain trends not yet listed such as Blockchain, data management, DevEx, etc. We see a lot of promising trends and we hope that understanding what engineers and firms are becoming more passionate about that it will help us create a foundation of ideas and knowledge.

Market report December 2023

In april’s market report, we explore the evolving landscape of Meta's Llama 3, LLM, the shift to edge computing, the new Bun 1.1, the trend of copy-pastes UI.

April 2024

Market report April 2024

Explore the August 2024 market report to discover how AI and LLM tools like Cursor, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Amazon Q are transforming software development. Learn about the shift from generative UI to generative apps, the impact of prompt caching by Anthropic, and the rise of structured outputs in AI.

August 2024

Market report August 2024

This month has been a continuation of AI and an upwards trend on FinOps and CyberSecurity. On top of those domains, there has been smaller, but very notable trends on the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) or MicroSaaS' have rebound and created significant growth for serverless services, as a means to avoid startup and initial running costs. Likewise, AI has been changing how we work and how we design systems to enrich workflows and create more naturally interactive apps.

February 2024

Market report February 2024

January 2024

Market report January 2024

In July's market report, we explore Meta's Llama 3.1 and its competitive edge in AI, OpenAI's fine-tuning for GPT-4o-mini, and Claude Sonnet 3.5's rapid development improvements. We also highlight advancements in sports analytics, multilingual text-to-speech, cybersecurity challenges, and trends in software engineering, including "boring" technology and evolving programming language salaries

July 2024

Market report July 2024

In this month’s market report, we explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, API techniques, toolings, programming languages, and the intersection of design and engineering. Our insights shed light on the dynamic shifts and emerging trends across these domains, highlighting the advancements that are shaping the future of technology and software development.

March 2024

Market report March 2024

In May's market report, we explore GPT-4o's advancements, the rising demand for veteran programmers, the transformative power of prescriptive AI, React 19's impact on network gaps, the growing complexity of GraphQL codebases, and Bend, a new parallel programming language.

May 2024

Market report may 2024

Explore the October 2024 market report: chatbots as productivity essentials with future potential, AI's role despite investment bubble concerns, and Python's rise in modern tech and AI. Learn why coding tools require strong practices, why companies seek versatile engineers, and how Big Tech's job market favors senior talent, posing challenges for juniors.

October 2024

Market report October 2024

In this month's market report, we've covered the hype and skepticism around OpenAI's reasoning models, the quiet rise of lightweight AI, the misuse of serverless, and the shakeup in web frameworks.

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