Optimizing React Performance with Selective Rendering
Avoiding Avoidable Component Re-renders. My team recently spent some time making performance improvements to a data-reporting front-end we build and maintain at Vena Solutions. The application »
Building Pylon-Free Web Pages: An Intro to Web Accessibility
A few years ago, when I was a student in university, I met a candidate running for student body president who had a disability that required »
Rewriting the JSAddin with React/Redux - 5 Lessons Learned
Over the last two quarters at Vena we had the opportunity to give some love to one of our core codebases — a JavaScript add-in (henceforth known »
Test-Driven Open Source Contributions
In my last post, I discussed implementing and testing the Bulk Insert/Save Pattern in MongoDB. At the end of that post, I alluded to an »
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 »