My team recently spent some time making performance improvements to a data-reporting front-end we build and maintain at Vena Solutions. The application is built entirely in React and has grown to the point where we are starting to notice …
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 her to be in a wheelchair. Her platform had a strong accessibility focus and …
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 as the JSAddin) embedded in Office365. The project was built under tight time …
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 …
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 an app that I’m creating in my journey to make feminist apps in an attempt to …
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 venture capital, and your boatload of cash, you need to handle a few things – …
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 16990947 is larger than maximum of 16777216.
We’ve seen this error message before; it’s …
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. There were two problems to overcome:
go get…
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 dependency injection from the start, with the expectation of writing unit tests with mocks. …
