Khoi Nguyen shares his experience as a Backend Engineer at Dwarves, highlighting the continuous learning opportunities, challenging projects, and knowledge sharing culture

Khoi Nguyen

#25 Khoi Nguyen on continuous learning

The concept of the adjacent possible originates from Stuart Kauffman and his work on biological evolution.

The adjacent possible

We worked with BaseHQ for two years to build and improve their software for executive assistants, helping them create new features and make their system faster and more reliable.

BaseHQ

Creating the first platform for Executive assistants

During the height of the pandemic, we helped Para build a platform that quickly connects nurses with hospitals facing staffing shortages. Our COVID-19 support program allowed them to accelerate development when they needed it most.

JoinPara

Connecting healthcare workers with hospitals during COVID-19

We helped Konvoy create technology that makes tracking and managing beer kegs simple and efficient. Their solution combines smart tracking with flexible rental options to help breweries save money and reduce lost kegs.

Konvoy

Making keg management smarter for breweries

We helped Relay quickly develop and launch their workflow automation tool for early market testing. Our engineers built a complete solution including a Chrome extension, web app, and Slack integration that helped Relay acquire their first paying customers and prepare for their next funding round.

Relay

Helping Relay launch their workflow automation MVP for the US market

We helped Search.io improve their dashboard, enhance their open-source tools, and create better interfaces for their plugins, helping online stores boost sales with smarter search.

Search.io

Building AI-powered search for online stores

We do the business to provide engineering capabilities to help customers on their business. A part of the benefits package is the Stock Option Plan, and the money is the sensitive topic in most companies, but we want you to understand so you could commit your best to make Dwarves Foundation a right place to work.

How we spend money

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Lean canvas is an adaptation of Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder which Ash Maurya created in the Lean Startup spirit (Fast, Concise and Effective startup). Lean canvas promises an actionable and entrepreneur-focused business plan. It focuses on problems, solutions, key metrics, and competitive advantages.

Lean canvas

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Materialized view is the cache of views. It pre-computes, stores, and optimizes data access when created, and automatically refreshes to ensure real-time data availability.

Materialized view pattern

DuckDB is a great starting point for modern stacks that don't need to worry about scalability, but want to derive hard analytics from the data that they have. This meeting will do a 3-part demo of DuckDB (15 minutes total): • Consolidate NYC taxi data in parallel (through map-reduce) over HTTPS • Aggregate IBM AML transactions (Anti-Money Laundering) • Some examples of how it is used to consolidate and do basic analytics on note.d and log.console.so

DuckDB demo and showcase

Behavior driven development (BDD) is a software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, QA, and non-technical stakeholders.

Behavior driven development

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

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In the React 18 version, the `useEffect` hook has been updated to called twice compare to only one in the older version in StrictMode.

UseEffect double calls in React 18

nrecoverable errors are those that occur when something goes fundamentally wrong, and the program cannot safely proceed. For example, if a file that is essential for the program to run is missing or corrupted, the program can panic and display an appropriate error message. Rust provides a mechanism for handling such situations through the **`panic!`** macro. When a **`panic!`** occurs, the program stops execution, unwinding the stack and providing a clear panic message...

Error handling on Rust

Learn how Mozilla uses Rust to build safer, parallel browsers by leveraging Rust's ownership, immutability, lifetime tracking, and expression-based design for error-free, efficient code.

Playaround with Rust

Rust's **trait** system is a powerful feature that enables developers to define shared behavior across different types. Traits play a crucial role in achieving code reusability, abstraction, and flexibility...

Rust trait

Learn how to adjust your team when the market shifts. This guide helps you assess competency, pivot goals, and keep your consulting service competitive.

Business correction

This document looks at our consulting model. It shows how we act as strategic partners to meet market demands and give real value.

Consulting model

Salesforce is taking AI to the next level with large language models that make customer service smoother, sales more strategic, and insights faster. By automating routine tasks, these tools free up teams to focus on real connections with customers. The result? Happier customers, smarter sales, and big wins for businesses.

Salesforce use cases

Yelp already had a machine learning platform before the big push for large language models (LLMs). Now, they’re using LLMs to level up their search and recommendation systems, making it easier for moderators and businesses to track down users. Let’s dive into how Yelp is making it work.

Yelp use cases

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.

January 2024

Market report January 2024

Our first weekly catchup. We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

Labs weekly catchup #1

Our second weekly catchup. We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

Labs weekly catchup #2

Our third weekly catchup. We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

Labs weekly catchup #3

Our fourth weekly catchup. We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

Labs weekly catchup #4

Our fifth weekly catchup to kick off the new year! We organize an agenda the day beforehand and consolidate our findings, notable research progress, possibly new tech, insight or technique everyone should know.

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