Vendia's Blog

Team spotlight: Vendia Software Development Get to know some of our world-class software developers and engineers with pedigrees from AWS, Netlify, Stripe, Mulesoft, Tealium, Gitlab, Microsoft, and more…and see what it’s like to be a part of Vendia.
My first 60 days: Trust is the chain that connects everything else Li Dai, Sr. Solutions Architect, shares his top three observations (and delights) from his first 60 days on our remote-first tech startup. Get to know Li, and learn if you’d thrive at Vendia, too.
3 things to do right now for better supply chain visibility What does it take to break data silos and build a trustworthy connected data ecosystem that ensures track and traceability and compliance with supply chain partners up and downstream? Consider these three principles for your business and data strategy.
Distributed ledger challenges and solutions Distributed ledger technology solutions can solve complex chain of custody and multi-party data sharing challenges. See use cases for solutions in finance, travel, and supply-chain-driven industries.
Creating a culture of learning See some of our values in action as James Gimourginas, Director of Solutions Architecture at Vendia, shares the ways Vendia is creating a culture of learning for our colleagues and customers
How to improve supply chain visibility Explore supply chain visibility challenges and discover three strategies for improving multi-party data sharing and management in the name of visibility.
Vendia Presents: Extreme Testing Tim Wagner, CEO of Vendia, talks about how the past few years' bottlenecks, shortages, and high volatility are really a symptom of a bigger business problem.
Circles of Trust: Season 1 recap Find your favorite episode from Season 1 of our podcast, Circles of Trust: Real talk on real-time data sharing. We talk with everyone from our founders to data strategy leaders in financial services, healthcare manufacturing, sports and entertainment, social justice, and animal welfare.
6 predictions about the future of blockchain in 2023 Where is blockchain headed in 2023? We surveyed our founders, solutions architects, and key leaders for their insights and hot takes.
Sharing data in financial services: How top financial institutions improve offerings, servicing, and operations with controlled multi-party data sharing In this episode of Circles of Trust, Brian Kale and James Gimourginas talk with Tim Zonca about the complexities of data sharing in financial services and the impact better data sharing has on customers and the financial institutions serving them.
5 patterns for successful data traceability Given the challenges companies face in developing and maintaining a successful data traceability program, here are five design patterns CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs can follow to ensure their corporate systems and mission-critical data are well protected.
Top challenges with data traceability Get familiar with the historical and modern challenges of data traceability, so you can better understand your own (and your data sharing partners’) data lineage mistakes and solutions.
Vendia Share feature spotlight Watch Francine Klein, Sr. Solutions Architect, walk through three of her favorite Vendia Share features: Immutable ledger, metrics, and connectors and integrations.
How blockchain can make global supply chains more predictable and efficient In the face of supply chain shortages and data breakdowns, next-gen blockchain is emerging as a smart way to decentralize multi-party data sharing with full, yet finely grained, end-to-end visibility.
Shared data architecture patterns Organizing shared data to gain new insights and maximize resources starts with the right blockchain-based solution. Learn how to choose the most compatible architecture for your company’s needs.
Connecting pets and their humans: How Best Friends Animal Society uses data sharing to connect pets to their human families, faster Angela Embree, retired CIO of Best Friends Animal Society, talks about the lifesaving power of data sharing across thousands of animal shelters and its impact on helping pets find their humans faster.
Understanding shared data architecture Go in-depth on shared data architecture as James Gimourginas explains what it is, how it works, and shared data architecture benefits, drawbacks, and use cases.
10 ways to make your software better when building for cloud scale How does Vendia’s team of cloud engineers build for scale? James Gimourginas, Director of Solutions Architecture and Customer Success lifts the hood on Vendia’s best practices.
Patient experience with teeth: How the world's leading dental laboratory uses data sharing to improve healthcare Robert Edwards, Director of Software Development at Glidewell Laboratories, talks about the challenges and pending promise of real-time data sharing across the medical device value chain.
Team spotlight: Vendia Engineering Get to know some of our world-class engineers with pedigrees from AWS, Netlify, Stripe, Mulesoft, Tealium, Gitlab, Microsoft, and more…and see what it’s like to be a part of Vendia.
Real-time data sharing challenges (and solutions) Examine the fundamental obstacles to successful real-time data sharing, including sharing in a data alliance. Understand traditional solutions and explore a more modern one with Vendia Share.
The future of data sharing with deterministic databases Tim Wagner, the Father of Serverless and Vendia Co-founder explores how database and blockchain research are revolutionizing business data sharing.
Worlds colliding: The new, unstoppable impact of analytics and operational data sharing at scale Erin Kelly, SVP at Kraft Analytics Group and Francine Klein, Sr. Solutions Architect, discuss connecting analytics and operational data worlds, at scale, with data alliances.
Veny’a doing it right Explore Vendia’s culture with Francine Klein, Sr. Solutions Architect, as she shares her perspective on what makes working at Vendia like operating within a living, breathing Venn diagram.
Codeless APIs: Why generating APIs from data models makes application development easier and safer Learn how codeless APIs free up teams from relentless grunt work and makes it easy, safe, and secure to share critical business data in your data alliance.
Why is supply chain visibility important? Supply chain visibility helps organizations make faster decisions with better outcomes. See how SCV data can add efficiency and better serve customers with insights from Vikrant Kahlir, Tech Lead.
The five values that make us Vendia Learn more about Vendia’s values and culture, what motivates us, and how we show up every day for our customers and each other in this post from Head of Talent, Renee Fujii.
Understanding API security with GraphQL Explore common forms of API security, how they specifically relate to GraphQL APIs, and how fully managed platforms like Vendia Share reduce the API security burden often faced by development teams.
Why dedicate a company (and $50M in investor cash) to real-time data sharing solutions? In this podcast episode of Circles of Trust, Vendia co-founders, Shruthi Rao and Tim Wagner, talk about why data sharing matters and why they founded Vendia.
Guide to real-time data sharing vendor types Want to scale up and streamline your real-time data sharing capabilities? Explore five common vendor approaches and compare and contrast them with Vendia Share.
Your Customer 360 solution isn’t really 360 Senior Solutions Architect Francine Klein explains why months-long data initiatives intent upon a Customer 360 solution fail and shares what you can do about it. (Hint: Forget Salesforce)
Fintech innovation for housing and finance data ecosystems The finance, housing, and mortgage servicing system can be transformed through the formation of multi-party and real-time data alliances underpinned by new business blockchain technology.
3 tips for a successful company retreat when your team is remote first How do you drive the business, win employee engagement, and make time for both business and fun at your next company retreat? Renee Fujii, Head of Talent, shares three thoughtful tips.
No more multicloud: The emergence of supercloud Learn how SaaS platforms in the post-cloud hyperscaler era are turning the multicloud mess into today’s biggest opportunity.
The great equalizer: How data sharing can help communities overcome social inequities (transcript) Meme Styles, Founder and President of MEASURE, discusses how better research and data sharing empower communities with new, unbiased narratives that help solve complex social problems.
Obstacles to real-time data sharing Some obstacles to real-time, multi-party data sharing are built into common data infrastructure. Other obstacles come from fearful business mindsets. Learn new ideas on how you can face both types of obstacles.
Use case: How next-gen blockchain delivers a “golden record” for mortgage servicing Read this use case for combining the best of blockchain and central IT to securely share real-time data, eliminate errors, and forgo massive, endless reconciliation.
Real-time “everything” with operational and analytics data Break down the walls between operational and analytics for real-time data sharing, starting with a shared love language to translate between JSON and SQL.
Where blockchain fits into your data and application strategy Get our new guide for innovation leaders and developers in the financial services industry. It features an in-depth use case for real-time, multi-party data sharing in mortgage servicing.
Roundup: Real-time data sharing Get our most popular and helpful content on real-time data sharing, data lakes, and data mesh in this resource roundup.
API design best practices James Gimourginas, Director of Solutions Architecture and Customer Success, takes a deep dive into API design best practices as they apply to REST APIs, GraphQL, and API automation.
How Atos streamlined the reinsurance process and built trust among financial services partners Atos adopts Vendia to create a single source of truth across reinsurance partners and lauds low code development and distributed ledger design.
New podcast: Circles of Trust launching this fall Get real talk on real-time data sharing, the perfect brain food for innovation evangelists, business strategists, passionate developers, and next-gen technology fans..
Kind is not weak, kind is strong What makes Vendia culture strong and what fuels our dedication to excellence? Hear from Vikrant Kahlir, Principal Tech Lead for Industry Solutions on the power and practice of kindness.
How to find your people: Notes on hiring and interviewing for kind humans Our Head of Talent, Renee Fujii shares interview tips and our cultural philosophy in this post about how we hire people at the intersection of smart and kind.
How to get buy-in for a new brand identity Our Head of Design, Hailey Nevins, shares the creative process and her top tips for developing a brand identity, especially when resources are lean and business priorities are revenue-focused.
Introducing developer-friendly pricing with our new Individual Plan Vendia Share announces a new developer-friendly pricing model for individuals with features including cross-cloud data sharing and an immutable ledger for all transaction.
Introducing our new brand identity Get the first look at our new look and logo with insights from our founders on why, and why now.
When CRUD APIs aren't enough: How custom models and smart APIs create better data sharing solutions Custom modeling and standard access platforms come together to make next-gen business APIs.
Q+A: Understanding Vendia Share’s approach to file sharing In Part 3 of our series on file sharing, we answer the top questions asked about controlled file sharing for enterprises and real-time file sharing outcomes for enterprises.
Highlights from the GBTA Panel on blockchain for the travel industry Learn about some of the key takeaways from the GBTA session on how blockchain is disrupting the travel industry with blockchain experts, Shruthi Rao of Vendia and Johnny Thorsen of Spotnana.
Why public cloud services aren’t enough for file sharing With over a decade and a half in production, why hasn’t the industry solved the problem of multi-party, multi-cloud file sharing?
Use cases for secure, ad-hoc data lakes with multi-cloud and multi-party file sharing Understand the sharing scenarios for multimedia and data-centric files across organizations, regions, and clouds in healthcare, automotive, semicon, and construction
The basic building blocks of Vendia Share How Vendia Share combines API, operational database, and blockchain technology to resolve the limitations of each and deliver serverless, real-time data sharing at scale
Blockchain is disrupting every industry vertical—could business travel be next? Join two blockchain experts, Shruthi Rao of Vendia and Johnny Thorsen of Spotnana, in this session to learn about blockchain’s potential in the travel industry.
Venn diagramming Vendia Share How to combine blockchain, database and API technology for enterprise-grade data sharing without sacrificing security or data governance
How Serverless and cloud enable scalable blockchains Get key takeaways from our webcast featuring AWS Serverless Hero Dr. Peter Sbarski’s interviewing Dr. Tim Wagner, Vendia’s co-founder and the inventor of Serverless and AWS Lambda
Understanding real-time data lakes Data lakes enable smarter apps and faster development. Let’s look at the basics of data lake architecture, use cases, benefits, and challenges
Why blockchains, databases, and APIs can’t cut it on their own Tim Wagner, the Father of Serverless and Vendia cofounder, explains why legacy technology makes sharing real-time data across apps, companies, clouds, geographies, and stacks difficult and expensive.
Ask the expert: Dr. Tim Wagner explains why APIs break down and how to fix your data inconsistencies with smart APIs With the rise of SaaS companies, APIs aren’t just part of your business, they are the business. Take a deep dive on all things API with Vendia co-founder & “The Father of Serverless,” Dr. Tim Wagner.
What is operational data sharing? Data systems share operational data to monitor the machinations of daily business. Let’s look at four unique use cases and compare it to analytical data.
What does a "lean app" mean for teams? A look at the lean app approach to development: The principles, features, and benefits that enable better team collaboration, products, and business results.
Elements of a real-time data sharing solution Real-time data sharing needs to grapple with increasingly decentralized data. Here are some elements to focus on when looking for a modern data sharing solution.
Webcast: How to build an enterprise blockchain with serverless Learn how Tim Wagner, founder of AWS Lambda, built a serverless, enterprise-ready blockchain.
The 10 data modeling techniques every Vendia user should know Step up your data modeling game to get the most value from Vendia Share.
NEW low latency operations and Vendia Metrics We're excited to announce two new features on Vendia Share: Low latency operations for better read-after-write performance and Vendia Metrics for insights into the operational health of your Uni and Nodes.
4 insights on the future of CRM data sharing Webinar highlights: Salesforce MVP Rebecca Lammers talks with James Gimourginas, Director of Solutions Architecture and Customer Success on the challenges and solutions for CRM data sharing.
Applying Vendia Share smart contracts Examples of real-time data validation, computation, and enrichment
Improve your data mesh with real-time data sharing Organizations exploring a data mesh should also consider exploring the benefits of integrating a real-time data sharing solution like Vendia Share
Data types 101: Real-time data vs. analytical data What is real-time data? How is it used? How does it compare to other popular data types like analytical or real-time analytical data?
Better together: Using the best of centralized IT, private blockchains, and public blockchains for NFTs Wrap up our four-part series examining the relationship between public blockchain, private blockchain and centralized IT technologies with Vendia CEO and co-founder, Tim Wagner.
No more burnout: Reflections after 6 months at Vendia Head of Design, Hailey Nevins, shares why she doesn't regret leaving the Fortune 100 tech industry to work for a startup.
How blockchain did (and did not) pan out as a modern IT solutions Dive into Part 2 of our series examining the relationship between public blockchain, private blockchain and centralized IT technologies with Vendia CEO and co-founder, Tim Wagner.
Announcing Synchronous Mutations for Vendia Share Building applications on Vendia Share just got a lot easier! Today, we are excited to announce the ability to execute synchronous mutations on Vendia Share.
13 features you need to evaluate an enterprise blockchain platform When evaluating an enterprise-grade blockchain solution (or trying to fix a failed blockchain initiative), there are 13 key features and questions IT and innovation leaders should investigate before investing in new infrastructure.
My first 30 days at Vendia Caroll Casbeer, Head of Growth Marketing, shares her thoughts on her first 30 days at Vendia — from onboarding to an offsite.
Multi-party data sharing with control Learn how Vendia Share's access controls enable trusted and secure real-time data sharing among partners across clouds with insights from our Solutions Architecture team.
How to scale your data ecosystem with Vendia Share Bring multiple data partners from your business network into a controlled, compliant real-time data sharing platform in just minutes with this tutorial from the Solution Architecture team.
Why we combined GraphQL and a serverless distributed ledger Learn why Vendia selected GraphQL as Vendia' Share's primary interface and how it can improve your development experience with Vendia Share with context from Brian McNamara, Sr. Solutions Architect.
Applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) to blockchains Discover 4 DDD Patterns for your next distributed ledger or permissioned private blockchain created on the Vendia Share data platform with insights from Vikrant Kahlir, Tech Lead for Data and Web3.
Real-Time cross-cloud data sharing Understand event-driven processing using Vendia Share's new Azure capabilities with insights from James Gimourginas, Director of Solution Architecture and Customer Success.
Schema Evolution Exploring the ability to update the data model in a Universal Application (Uni)
Vendia's Response to CVE-2021-44228 A note on the impact to Vendia and our customers
Announcing Azure support, smart contracts, and new pricing plans for Vendia Share Today, we are excited to announce a new set of features for Vendia Share to further help developers build secure, decentralized data applications. Let’s jump into some of the new features.
Authenticating Vendia Share Requests Using SAML Learn how to use existing SAML identity providers to work with Vendia Share
Website Case Studies Learn what Vendia customers and partners are building on the Share platform
Open Beta Changes Changes to Vendia Share in advance of the Open Beta
Five Leadership Practices of an Ultramarathoner How to win the long game, as demonstrated by Kevin Durdle, Vendia's Ultramarathoner and Director of Software Development
Toward a Distributed Application Maturity Model A Maturity Model to help you assess the strengths and weaknesses of the distributed applications used by your organization.
Vendia's Inspiring Vision Vendia will cause a paradigm shift that will impact many distributed solutions, which is what attracted me to join the team.
Vendia Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing Vendia is included in Gartner's May 2021 Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing report
NEW Vendia Share indexing feature Vendia Share now supports customer indices to improve data retrieval performance.
How to share Files in Vendia Share Unis Sharing data across different organizations, accounts, and regions used to be hard. This step-by-step example shows how Vendia Share makes it easy to share files in Unis and how to share files with other participants in a Uni while controlling read and write permissions.
Announcing the Vendia Share Developer Preview! Vendia is excited to announce the launch of our Developer Preview release for Vendia Share, enabling developers to experience the platform at no cost. Vendia is also pleased to announce the completion of our Series A investment, led by Canvas Ventures.
Vendia Announces Series A Investment Vendia is excited to announce the completion of a $15.5M Series A investment, led by Canvas Ventures with participation from BMW i Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, and our existing seed investors
Understanding Decentralization in the Cloud In this post we explore how to think about the concept of decentralization in the cloud, and what it means from a trust and ownership perspective.
STAMTI: A New Model for Delivering Cloud-based Services In this post learn more about STAMTI (single-tenanted accounts on multi-tenanted infrastructure) and how it enables companies like Vendia to deliver services that are simultaneously easy for customers to adopt and use while still being secure, operationally isolated, and cost efficient.
The developer's punchlist for getting started with Vendia Share Ready to share code and data across accounts, regions, clouds, and partners? Ready to use any service from any cloud provider to build upon your real-time data? This post will get you started with everything you need to learn about unis and how to develop with Vendia Share
NEW Track and Trace Quickstart for solving supply chain visibility problems Use this Vendia Share Track and Trace Quickstart for managing logistics across multiple parties, regardless of their location and technology stack.
How tools impact products for real-time, multi-party data sharing Beginning with a single server and a SQL database, we cover the tradeoffs needed to build a system that all the parties involved can trust and use to make transactions.
Track and trace using Vendia Unis and Blobs Learn how Vendia Share's Unis and Blobs functionality can help streamline common supply chain track & trace issues.
Meet Vendia's founders Meet Tim Wagner, Vendia's CEO, and Shruthi Rao, Vendia's CBO. They share their stories about how they came to partner as founders, and how Vendia came to life as an idea, a funded startup, and a breakthrough data sharing platform for the Web3 era.
Welcome to Vendia Our mission is to make it easy to share code and data across companies, cloud, geographies, and technology stacks.