The Case of the Hidden Mongo Data

Over here at Vena, we share a docker-compose.yml file to help new…

Building Pylon-Free Web Pages

An Intro to Web Accessibility

Securing your web application with Spring Boot and Kotlin.

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 of our culture. We’re not perfect at this, but, like everything, we have a…

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 an app that I’m creating in my journey to make feminist apps in an attempt to disrupt status quo.

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 16990947 is larger than maximum of 16777216.

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. There were two problems to overcome:

How to use private…