A short while ago, we were building a distributed backend service where multiple instances of the service would be sending requests to each other to coordinate work splitting and availability. We were concerned about a number of potential roadblocks, including …
“Most people like to dunk on Edge, but I think it’s a pretty great browser,” my coworker Thomas told me. We were a few hours into attempting to fix a bug that only occurred in Microsoft Edge and I had …
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 like a coward and fled to beautiful sunny Montevideo, Uruguay). This was a huge …
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 issue we encountered when I first wrote the test for the bulk insert/save. In …
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 of our culture. We’re not perfect at this, but, like everything, we have a …
Hi, my name is Mustafa Haddara, and I’m a Software Developer at Vena. We build a multidimensional database (aka OLAP Cube; the wikipedia article is pretty good at elaborating on the subject). I work mainly on the compiler and …
Here at Vena, we build a multidimensional database (also known as an OLAP Cube, or simply “The Cube”) for our customers to store and analyze their data. Part of the functionality we provide is a programming language to express relationships …
