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  • My First RubyKaigi: An Unforgettable Experience in Okinawa

    My First RubyKaigi: An Unforgettable Experience in Okinawa

    Hello, my name is Henry and I joined Money Forward in November 2023 as a new graduate. I am currently working in the authentication team. This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend RubyKaigi 2024 in Okinawa for the first time. I was excited to immerse myself in the vibrant Ruby community and participate in an…

  • Aiming for Further Speed and Quality Improvement While Being Conscious with User Focus: An Interview with Money Forward CQO

    Aiming for Further Speed and Quality Improvement While Being Conscious with User Focus: An Interview with Money Forward CQO

    Aiming for further quality improvement in Money Forward, Chief Quality Officer (CQO) was appointed last year. On this occasion that a year has passed since then, we heard his story about what he has in mind and where we are heading for. Juichi Takahashi Ph.D. in Comupter Science. Studied software quality under the guidance of…

  • Executing Over 7,500 Test Cases to Ensure the Accuracy of Aggregation Logic

    Executing Over 7,500 Test Cases to Ensure the Accuracy of Aggregation Logic

    Introduction Hello, I am katuo, the Engineering Leader of the Cloud Attendance team. Before diving into the main topic of the article, I would like to briefly introduce our product, Cloud Attendance. Cloud Attendance provides a function to manage attendance data, such as time clocking, on the cloud. Since its release about five years ago in…

  • Community-driven RBS repository

    Community-driven RBS repository

    Hi. I’m Pocke, a maintainer of RBS. I’m writing this article to share an update on ruby/gem_rbs_collection repository. As of March 2024, significant improvements have been made to the RBS repository, ruby/gem_rbs_collection to enhance its community-driven approach. This article provides an update on the changes and their impact on the repository. What is ruby/gem_rbs_collection? Before the main…

  • Understanding Image Optimization in Next.js

    Understanding Image Optimization in Next.js

    Importances of Image Optimization Nowadays, with a plethora of images enriching web applications, optimizing them becomes paramount for maintaining a smooth user experience. In this guide, we’ll explore how to tackle this challenge within Next.js, a framework renowned for its efficiency in building modern web applications. We’ll delve into strategies for reducing load times, conserving bandwidth, and…

  • Unveiling the Power of the React Compound Component Pattern

    Unveiling the Power of the React Compound Component Pattern

    In the world of front-end development, React shines as a top-tier JavaScript library. Its component-based structure makes UI development easier by breaking down intricate interfaces into reusable pieces. Among React’s many design patterns, the Compound Component Pattern stands out as a powerful method for crafting flexible, composable, and reusable components. In this blog post, we’ll…

  • Managing the Map() API in a useReducer with ReactJS.

    Managing the Map() API in a useReducer with ReactJS.

    What is Map()? Map() in JavaScript is a collection type introduced in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) that allows you to store key-value pairs. Unlike objects, which only support string or symbol keys, a Map() can use keys of any type, including objects, functions, and any primitive type. Why are we using Map()? In a JavaScript ecosystem, you will sometimes work with Map() to…

  • Optimizing CircleCI Workflows to Cut Costs by 52% on a Rust Project

    Optimizing CircleCI Workflows to Cut Costs by 52% on a Rust Project

    Challenges Although the Peppol Connect team may not be the largest within Money Forward in terms of personnel, it ranks among the top five repositories in terms of CircleCI credits utilized. This disproportionate use of compute resources for continuous integration by a small team of few people, in comparison to other teams, presented an intriguing challenge. It…

  • 3 Mindsets for Improving Accessibility

    3 Mindsets for Improving Accessibility

    Hi, I’m @taigakiyokawa from Frontend Forward Group. I’m working on making Accessibility Guidelines and developing common UI libraries as a frontend engineer. Today, I will introduce as an article what I spoke at the internal presentation for all engineers to raise awareness of accessibility. 同じ記事の日本語版はこちら 3 Mindsets for Improving Accessibility First of all, here are today’s key…

  • Passkey Usage Report @ Money Forward ID (vol.4, Feb 2024)

    Passkey Usage Report @ Money Forward ID (vol.4, Feb 2024)

    Japanese version of this article is available here. Intro Hi, I’m @nov from Money Forward ID Service Development team. Well, everyone, how are you spending Valentine’s Day? The time has come for the passkey usage report, which is released roughly every quarter. Over the past three months, Money Forward ID has undergone the following changes regarding passkeys. We’ll…

  • TCA with Swift 5.9 If and Switch Expressions: The Compiler Error Workaround

    TCA with Swift 5.9 If and Switch Expressions: The Compiler Error Workaround

    Greetings Hello, I’m Ong Yue Huei (AJ), an iOS software engineer at Money Forward, Inc.‘s Tax Return Group. Months ago, Swift 5.9 dropped with some fresh if and switch expressions that excited many, including myself. When I first caught wind of it, akin to many of you, I snagged my PC and dove into some hands-on tinkering. Everything was…

  • Large Language Model Trained by Houou: RIKEN Ichikara-Instruction RIKEN Data Set

    Large Language Model Trained by Houou: RIKEN Ichikara-Instruction RIKEN Data Set

    Posted by Atsuhi Kojima, Researcher, Money Forward Lab. This article aims for engineers and students who are interested in or are involved in natural language processing, and introduces research and development of Large Language Model (LLM), which Money Forwards’s research institute Money Forward Lab has been working on. As a training method to improve the instruction…