Vena Engineering Blog

I am a steadfast believer in the future of women in tech. As a user experience designer here at Vena, I have seen first-hand the value »

(Author’s note: this post is a collaborative effort by Grady Johnson and Mustafa Haddara. Sadly Ghost doesn’t allow us to list co-authors) The following »

We’ve all been there. You’ve got a complex problem to solve and you have no idea where to start. It’s time to roll »

I recently had the opportunity to work remotely while traveling for six weeks with Hacker Paradise (I took the opportunity to hide from the Toronto winter »

Over here at Vena, we share a docker-compose.yml file to help new developers set up their environments smoothly. I’ve edited this file to mount »

Recently, profiling showed me that most of the time in the microbenchmark I was running was spent generating the stream of random numbers using Random.nextGaussian. »

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 »

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 »

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 »