In honour of Claude Shannon’s 100th birthday, I want to tell you about two ideas I had for storing data efficiently. These ideas are pretty nifty individually, but together, they form a data structure that allows a large amount …
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 …
I still remember applying to Vena like it was yesterday, a simple task that has changed my life forever. As a first year student who has only 4 months of university under his belt, I knew my chances of finding …
Using a Java framework like Dropwizard and an ORM like Hibernate, it’s quite easy to write a REST server in a completely object-oriented way. By defining entity classes, you can use the same objects from the incoming HTTP request, through …
One of the great things about Python is its built-in support for functional programming where you can pass anonymous functions to other functions at runtime. This is done through python’s lambda function, which is often used in conjunction with functional …
When you’re running a cloud service like we do here at Vena, uptime is very important. We run blue-green deployments and we strive to make all database schema changes backwards compatible, so server upgrades require no downtime and rollbacks are …
Folks using programming languages with automatic garbage collection (GC) often feel that it’s a price worth paying. I disagree: outside of some fairly limited circumstances, there’s no price to be paid at all.
If your application is short-running, or …
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 …
As part of a general effort to improve the security of our infrastructure, all of our AWS instances now have OSSEC installed on them to provide host-based intrusion detection – this includes instances in our autoscaling groups. In this post …
A few of us will be visiting U of T next week to give a talk on Vena’s Calc programming language. If you like programming languages and compilers, come by SF3202 at 5:00pm on Wednesday, March 23 to hear us …
