Making Feminists Apps One HackNight at a Time
At Vena we have weekly events where we order food and stay at the office and code/design/solve interesting problems together. This post is about »
Implementing and Testing the Bulk Insert/Save Pattern in MongoDB
Here at Vena, we use MongoDB pretty heavily in our back end stack. We also are working on making automated testing a larger, more prevalent part »
Securing your web application with Spring Boot and Kotlin.
So you’re building the next Uber for Cats - the internet is going to love it. But before you get your millions of users, the »
When is a Set not a Set?
I come into work one morning, and I hear about a new customer bug. A data import failed, with this technical-looking error message: Document size of »
Using Go with a private Github and forks
At Vena we use a private GitHub Enterprise instance. Recently the Infrastructure team has been using Go and we want to version our Go code there. »
Is it Possible to Write Bug-Free Code? A Case for Thorough Specifications
When I started as a server developer at Vena in 2013, we didn't have test-driven development. Sure, we designed our codebase to be testable by using »
More agile than you think
This topic has been on my mind for a while, and I wanted to share my thoughts because it taught me very important things. Roughly a »
What's using all the disk space?
We had an issue a while ago where one of our Mongo instances had run out of available space on the root disk. This was concerning »
Life After Big IT
There’s a story I tell candidates during their interviews, that embodies the spirit of Vena. Shortly after I left a big IT firm to join »
So, Patrick, how was your long weekend?
I took this past Monday as a vacation day. Upon returning, I sent this email to the team, and they suggested I post it here. Upon »