Reports
Field reports and market reports: what we built, measured and learned on real systems.
2026
- Related notes by meaning: an embedding index won memo's Ask and lost the chat eval
Memo now picks the related notes Ask reads beside each article from a 522-note bge-m3 index instead of the folder a note sits in. The same index lost a blind 40-question…
- Five sources made 72% of our 5,068 pages: six months of a Worker that watches our jobs
A Cloudflare Worker has watched our hosts and 193 live job heartbeats since April 2026. This report counts its 5,068 pages, traces each spike to its cause, and records…
- The 2025 roadmap, scored: 22 promises, 5 kept, 9 dropped
Our January 2025 plan promised four bets and five chairs. In October 2026 I scored all 22 promises against our repos, databases and pages: 5 kept, 8 half kept and 9…
- We called ten technology arcs in June 2025. eight of the 60 experiments we planned got built.
Sixteen months after ten thesis notes, a scored ledger of what we built, which clients paid and what the market did, plus the five-step method that produced the calls.
- Memo, rebuilt: Elixir and DuckDB out, Cloudflare and D1 in
Memo's May 2025 build notes described Elixir, DuckDB and GitHub Pages. This report sets them beside today's Workers, D1, R2 and two-repo publish, with the dates, PRs and…
- Guest writers on memo, keyed by the writer's own domain
How memo.d.foundation publishes posts from writers' own blogs as native notes: domain-verified joins, semi-auto review with a human verdict, ICY rewards per post, and…
- Making our site AI-agent-ready, 50 to 93
We ran memo.d.foundation through is-agentic.com, read its rubric closely, and shipped the fixes that took the score from 50 to 93. Here is the rubric in full and what…
- Our publish step took 110 seconds, then 78. Our release tab took three tries.
Reading a CI log line by line cut memo's publish step from 110 to 78 seconds and exposed three silent bugs. Then agents started deploying all day, and the Releases tab…
2025
- Automated markdown linting for memo
An exploration of how Dwarves Foundation automates Markdown quality using modular linting, generative formatting, and cross-repo CI/CD integration.
- Monitoring the ICY Swap backend
We built a monitoring system for a cryptocurrency backend that provides deep observability while protecting sensitive financial data through layered health checks and…
- Composing the Dwarves video pipeline
A behind-the-scenes look at how we built our video pipeline for long-form explainers and short-form content, from script to screen, with AI in the loop.
- Dual-mode monitoring for memo.d.foundation
Learn about our dual approach to monitoring at memo.d.foundation, combining synthetic and instrumental monitoring to ensure system health and community engagement.
- URL redirects and folder aliases for memo
Implementing a URL redirect system for NextJS static memo pages to create SEO-friendly, shareable URLs while maintaining backward compatibility.
- AI knowledge automation
Exploring the motivations behind the MCP Playbook, its role in establishing a dynamic runbook, and new patterns for capturing AI-generated knowledge like chat logs and…
- MCP playbook code flow
A detailed look into the mcp-playbook's internal code flow, data handling for chat logs and prompts, and interactions with GitHub repositories like prompt-db and…
- MCP playbook data flow
How data flows through the MCP playbook server, from MCP client requests to tool execution and interactions with the file system and GitHub. This overview helps you…
- Secure and transparent uptime monitoring with Upptime and GitHub secrets
Discover how Dwarves Foundation uses Upptime and GitHub Actions for transparent public uptime monitoring while securely keeping tabs on internal services.
- Optimizing initial load time 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.
- Implement Binance futures PNL analysis page by Phoenix LiveView
Implementing Binance Futures PNL Analysis page with Phoenix LiveView to optimize development efficiency. This approach reduces the need for separate frontend and backend…
- Migrate regular tables into TimescaleDB hypertables to improve query performance
How do we migrate normal table to timescale table to optimized data storage
- Database hardening for a 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,…
2024
- Building a data archive and recovery strategy for high-volume trading system
A guide to implementing data archival and recovery strategies for high-volume transactional application.
- Building chatbot agent to streamline project management
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…
- Building data pipeline for OGIF transcriber
A technical case study of creating an automated system that downloads videos, processes audio, and generates transcripts using AI services like Groq and OpenAI.
- Setup centralized monitoring system for Hedge Foundation trading platform
A technical case study for implementing centralized monitoring for a trading platform using Grafana and Prometheus, focusing on real-time alerts, data integrity, and…
- Building better Binance transfer tracking
A deep dive into building a robust transfer tracking syste m for Binance accounts, transforming disconnected transaction logs into meaningful fund flow narratives…
- Reconstructing historical trading PnL: a data pipeline approach
A detailed look at how we rebuilt historical trading PnL data through an efficient data pipeline approach, transforming a complex problem into a maintainable solution.
- Visualizing crypto market performance: BTC-Alt dynamic indicators in Golang
Implementing a Golang-based visualization for crypto market performance indicators, focusing on Bitcoin vs Altcoin dynamics and trading strategy effectiveness through…
- Project reports system: a case study
An in-depth look at Dwarves' monthly Project Reports system - a lean, efficient system that transforms communication data into actionable intelligence for Operations…
- Devbox in production: our success story
How we transformed our development and deployment process with Devbox.
- Vietnam tech ecosystem 2024 report
The 2024 Vietnam Tech Market Report highlights Vietnam's resilient tech scene, ranking third in Southeast Asia despite a 17% drop in investments. With a booming digital…
2023
- From multi-repo to monorepo: a case study with Nghenhan Turbo
Learn how migrating to a Turbo-powered monorepo cut build times by 60%, boosted developer productivity by 40%, and simplified dependency management in a real trading…