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Data protection compliance with distributed ledger erasure
Written by ryan-green.
How to maintain data protection compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) using
Vendia's Data Erasure capabilities.
2023-06-21 ✍️ - 🛠️
Achieving end-to-end supply chain visibility with your data architecture
Written by Alex Vukovic.
How to achieve supply chain visibility with data collaboration
platforms and solutions.
2023-05-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Cultivate data collaboration in your lush data sharing landscape
Written by Francine Klein.
Senior Solutions Architect, Francine Klein, explains why Vendia Share
and Snowflake integrate for data collaboration and a single, unified
source of truth.
2023-04-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
4 requirements for supply chain traceability in partner data sharing
Written by Vendia.
When it comes to supply chain management, business resiliency, and
data traceability requirements, here's our guiding vision behind the
Vendia Share solution for traceability use cases.
2023-04-20 ✍️ - 🛠️
Data protection approaches: How to balance need to know vs. need to
share

Written by James Gimourginas.
James Gimourginas, Director of Solutions Architecture and Customer
Success, shares data protection approaches to make sure your next
blockchain investment doesn't leave you exposed.
2023-03-24 ✍️ - 🛠️
What do business data networks look like?
Written by Tim Wagner.
Explore the four phases of building data sharing networks. Plus, learn
how the hub and spoke model helps leaders leverage business
initiatives into a secure, compliant, and trusted data network.
2023-02-16 ✍️ - 🛠️
A short history of business data networks
Written by Tim Wagner.
Learn how data sharing has evolved and how business and technology
leaders can scale and optimize their data networks today and for the
future.
2023-02-14 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to build a data ecosystem
Written by Vendia.
Ready to build a sustainable cross-cloud data ecosystem? Explore our
five-step guide, including elements of an effective data ecosystem,
plus examples and use cases of ecosystems across industries.
2023-02-10 ✍️ - 🛠️
Does your data build or break trust?
Written by Vendia.
Circles of Trust guest Joyce Clinton of MUFG Bank shares real talk on
the challenges and opportunities her team of 26 has closing the books
and transforming data.
2023-02-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
Team spotlight: Vendia Software Development
Written by Vendia.
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.
2023-01-19 ✍️ - 🛠️
My first 60 days: Trust is the chain that connects everything else
Written by Li Dai.
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.
2023-01-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
Introducing our new VP of Revenue, Josh Epstein
Written by Shruthi Rao.
Meet Josh Epstein, Vendia's new VP of Revenue.
2023-01-13 ✍️ - 🛠️
3 things to do right now for better supply chain visibility
Written by Vendia.
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.
2023-01-12 ✍️ - 🛠️
Distributed ledger challenges and solutions
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2023-01-11 ✍️ - 🛠️
Creating a culture of learning
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2023-01-05 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to improve supply chain visibility
Written by Vendia.
Explore supply chain visibility challenges and discover three
strategies for improving multi-party data sharing and management in
the name of visibility.
2023-01-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Blockchain, cloud, and IT in 2023 and beyond
Written by Tim Wagner.
Predictions from Dr. Tim Wagner, CEO at Vendia, on the big challenges,
inspiring opportunities, and exciting sources of IT innovation and
technological advancement.
2022-12-20 ✍️ - 🛠️
Circles of Trust: Season 1 recap
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-12-16 ✍️ - 🛠️
6 predictions about the future of blockchain in 2023
Written by Vendia.
Where is blockchain headed in 2023? We surveyed our founders,
solutions architects, and key leaders for their insights and hot takes.
2022-12-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
How top financial institutions improve offerings, servicing, and
operations with controlled multi-party data sharing

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-12-14 ✍️ - 🛠️
5 patterns for successful data traceability
Written by Tim Wagner + Francine Klein.
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.
2022-12-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
Top challenges with data traceability
Written by Tim Wagner + Francine Klein.
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.
2022-12-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia Share feature spotlight
Written by Francine Klein.
Watch Francine Klein, Sr. Solutions Architect, walk through three of
her favorite Vendia Share features: Immutable ledger, metrics, and
connectors and integrations.
2022-12-06 ✍️ - 🛠️
How blockchain can make global supply chains more predictable and
efficient

Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-12-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Shared data architecture patterns
Written by Li Dai.
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.
2022-11-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
Connecting pets and their humans: How Best Friends Animal Society uses
data sharing to connect pets to their human families, faster

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-11-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Understanding shared data architecture
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-11-21 ✍️ - 🛠️
10 ways to make your software better when building for cloud scale
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-11-18 ✍️ - 🛠️
Patient experience with teeth: How the world's leading dental laboratory
uses data sharing to improve healthcare

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-11-16 ✍️ - 🛠️
Team spotlight: Vendia Engineering
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-11-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
Real-time data sharing challenges (and solutions)
Written by Tim Wagner + James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-11-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
The future of data sharing with deterministic databases
Written by Tim Wagner.
Tim Wagner, the Father of Serverless and Vendia Co-founder, explores
how database and blockchain research are revolutionizing business data
sharing.
2022-11-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
Worlds colliding: The new, unstoppable impact of analytics and
operational data sharing at scale

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-11-02 ✍️ - 🛠️
Veny’a doing it right
Written by Francine Klein.
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.
2022-11-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Codeless APIs: Why generating APIs from data models makes application
development easier and safer

Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-10-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why is supply chain visibility important?
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-10-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
The five values that make us Vendia
Written by 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.
2022-10-25 ✍️ - 🛠️
Understanding API security with GraphQL
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-10-21 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why dedicate a company (and $50M in investor cash) to real-time data
sharing solutions?

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-10-19 ✍️ - 🛠️
Guide to real-time data sharing vendor types
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-10-18 ✍️ - 🛠️
Your Customer 360 solution isn’t really 360
Written by Francine Klein.
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).
2022-10-14 ✍️ - 🛠️
Fintech innovation for housing and finance data ecosystems
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-10-12 ✍️ - 🛠️
How Vendia connects: 3 tips for a great company retreat when your team
is remote-first

Written by Renee Fujii.
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.
2022-10-11 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to think about your growth marketing tactics at a startup
Written by Vendia.
Head of Growth Marketing, Caroll Casbeer, dives into tactics she used
at Vendia to grow their marketing engine.
2022-10-06 ✍️ - 🛠️
No more multicloud: Here comes supercloud
Written by Tim Wagner.
SaaS platforms in the post-cloud hyperscaler era are turning the
multicloud mess into today’s biggest opportunity.
2022-10-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
The great equalizer: How data sharing can help communities overcome
social inequities

Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-10-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Obstacles to real-time data sharing
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-09-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
Use case: How next-gen blockchain delivers a “golden record” for
mortgage servicing

Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-09-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
Real-time “everything” with operational and analytics data
Written by Francine Klein.
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.
2022-09-22 ✍️ - 🛠️
Where blockchain fits into your data and application strategy
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-09-20 ✍️ - 🛠️
Roundup: Real-time data sharing
Written by Vendia.
Get our most popular and helpful content on real-time data sharing,
data lakes, and data mesh in this resource roundup.
2022-09-20 ✍️ - 🛠️
API design best practices
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-09-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
How Atos streamlined the reinsurance process and built trust among
financial services partners

Written by Vendia.
Atos adopts Vendia to create a single source of truth across
reinsurance partners and lauds low code development and distributed
ledger design.
2022-09-14 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to find your people: Notes on hiring and interviewing for kind
humans

Written by Renee Fujii.
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.
2022-09-06 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to get buy-in for a new brand identity
Written by Hailey Nevins.
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.
2022-09-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Introducing developer-friendly pricing with our new Individual Plan
Written by Vendia Engineering.
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.
2022-08-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
Introducing our new brand identity
Written by Vendia.
Get the first look at our new look and logo with insights from our
founders on why, and why now.
2022-08-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
When CRUD APIs aren't enough: How custom models and smart APIs create
better data sharing solutions

Written by Tim Wagner.
Custom modeling and standard access platforms come together to make
next-gen business APIs.
2022-08-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
Q+A: Understanding Vendia Share’s approach to file sharing
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-08-24 ✍️ - 🛠️
Introduction to B2B data sharing with Vendia Share
Written by Vendia.
Learn about B2B data sharing use cases, benefits, challenges, and
different approaches for securely and reliably sharing data in a
real-time, multi-party data ecosystem.
2022-08-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Highlights from the GBTA Panel on blockchain for the travel industry
Written by Anders Maul.
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.
2022-08-19 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why public cloud services aren’t enough for file sharing
Written by Tim Wagner.
With over a decade and a half in production, why hasn’t the industry
solved the problem of multi-party, multi-cloud file sharing?.
2022-08-17 ✍️ - 🛠️
Use cases for secure, ad-hoc data lakes with multi-cloud and multi-party
file sharing

Written by Tim Wagner.
Understand the sharing scenarios for multimedia and data-centric files
across organizations, regions, and clouds in healthcare, automotive,
semicon, and construction.
2022-08-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
The basic building blocks of Vendia Share
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-08-12 ✍️ - 🛠️
Venn diagramming Vendia Share
Written by Tim Wagner.
How to combine blockchain, database and API technology for
enterprise-grade data sharing without sacrificing security or data
governance.
2022-08-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
How Serverless and cloud enable scalable blockchains
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-08-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Understanding real-time data lakes
Written by Francine Klein.
Data lakes enable smarter apps and faster development. Let’s look at
the basics of data lake architecture, use cases, benefits, and
challenges.
2022-08-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why blockchains, databases, and APIs can’t cut it on their own
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-07-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
Ask the expert: Dr. Tim Wagner explains why APIs break down and how to
fix your data inconsistencies with smart APIs

Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-07-28 ✍️ - 🛠️
What is operational data sharing?
Written by Vendia.
Data systems share operational data to monitor the machinations of
daily business. Let’s look at four unique use cases and compare
operational data to analytical data.
2022-07-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
What does a "lean app" mean for teams?
Written by James Gimourginas.
A look at the lean app approach to development: The principles,
features, and benefits that enable better team collaboration,
products, and business results.
2022-07-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Elements of a real-time data sharing solution
Written by Anders Maul.
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.
2022-07-20 ✍️ - 🛠️
Webcast: How to build an enterprise blockchain with serverless
Written by Caroll Casbeer.
Learn how Tim Wagner, founder of AWS Lambda, built a serverless,
enterprise-ready blockchain.
2022-07-19 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to choose between event handlers and smart contracts
Written by Tim Wagner.
Compare and contrast event handlers and smart contracts as you
consider modeling applications for real-time data sharing with
partners across organizations, clouds, and geographies.
2022-07-13 ✍️ - 🛠️
The 10 data modeling techniques every Vendia user should know
Written by James Gimourginas.
Step up your data modeling game to get the most value from Vendia
Share.
2022-07-12 ✍️ - 🛠️
Top 5 headaches of CRM integrations according to a Salesforce MVP
Written by Anders Maul.
Discover the best way to combine CRMs and overcome CRM integration
painpoints with insights from Salesforce MVP, Rebecca Lammers.
2022-07-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
What does a ‘lean app’ mean for developers?
Written by Caroll Casbeer.
Examine the lean app approach to development, including its
precursors, its basic rules, and how it helps developers spend more
time creating amazing code.
2022-07-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
3 core use cases for Vendia Share in the semiconductor industry
Written by Vendia.
How to reduce supply chain complexity and improve business outcomes
with distributed ledger technology (and without sacrificing a
climate-stable future).
2022-07-07 ✍️ - 🛠️
NEW low latency operations and Vendia Metrics
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-07-07 ✍️ - 🛠️
Solve for supply chain traceability with Vendia Share
Written by Vendia.
Learn how private, permissioned blockchain helps manufacturers solve
data traceability challenges and securely exchange data with supply
chain partners using the semiconductor industry as an example.
2022-06-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to effectively address the challenges of real-time data sharing at
the enterprise level

Written by Tim Wagner.
In this three-part series, dive deep into the challenges and solutions
for evaluating and implementing real-time data sharing with
confidence and control.
2022-06-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
4 insights on the future of CRM data sharing
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-06-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia guest contributor program
Written by Vendia.
Create a tutorial using Vendia as part of our "Write for Vendia
Program." Participants receive a $500 Visa gift card.
2022-06-22 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why CRM data sharing is business critical
Written by Vendia.
Sharing data between multiple CRM systems is helping organizations
realize superior business outcomes, more so with the availability of
robust multi-party CRM data sharing solutions.
2022-06-21 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to make your APIs "data-aware"
Written by Tim Wagner.
Data APIs continue to be a challenge for teams. What if your APIs did
the heavy lifting and kept a single source of truth.
2022-06-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
Real-time data sharing: Pros and cons
Written by Anders Maul.
Real-time data sharing enables faster, more comprehensive, and more
collaborative data systems. But it's distinct challenges have been
hard to solve for — until now.
2022-06-07 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia announces Series B funding
Written by Vendia.
We've raised $30MM in series B funding to usher in the web3 era with
our next-gen blockchain technology, for a total of $50MM in startup
funding. Thank you to our investors, customers, fans, and team!.
2022-05-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
APIs don’t have to be so difficult
Written by Tim Wagner.
APIs continue to be a challenge for organizations - we dive into why,
and how we can make faster, smarter APIs.
2022-05-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
Applying Vendia Share smart contracts
Written by James Gimourginas.
Examples of real-time data validation, computation, and enrichment.
2022-05-25 ✍️ - 🛠️
Greenchain, Part 2: Vendia and green blockchain
Written by Tim Wagner.
How Vendia's serverless distributed ledger is the green way to do data
sharing.
2022-05-19 ✍️ - 🛠️
Greenchain, Part 1: Current blockchains' big carbon footprints
Written by Tim Wagner.
Why current blockchain technologies have large carbon footprints.
2022-05-17 ✍️ - 🛠️
Greenchains: Can blockchains save the environment?
Written by Tim Wagner.
Many current blockchains solutions have a large carbon footprint, but
next-gen blockchains have fewer carbon emissions—and can help in
sustianability tracking.
2022-05-13 ✍️ - 🛠️
Improve your data mesh with real-time data sharing
Written by James Gimourginas.
Learn why organizations exploring a data mesh should also consider the
benefits of integrating a real-time data sharing solution like Vendia
Share.
2022-05-10 ✍️ - 🛠️
Data types 101: Real-time data vs. analytical data
Written by Vendia.
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?.
2022-05-05 ✍️ - 🛠️
What is real-time data sharing?
Written by Tim Wagner.
The basics of real-time data sharing: what it is, how it works, common
use cases, and how management platforms enable better data sharing
and collaboration.
2022-05-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
The three body problem: Looking ahead
Written by Tim Wagner.
In the final part of the Three Body Problem we summarize our findings
and look ahead for what successful companies will do.
2022-05-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Better together: Using the best of centralized IT, private blockchains,
and public blockchains for NFTs

Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-04-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
No more burnout: Reflections after 6 months at Vendia
Written by Hailey Nevins.
Head of Design, Hailey Nevins, shares why she doesn't regret leaving
the Fortune 100 tech industry to work for a startup.
2022-04-25 ✍️ - 🛠️
Strengths and Weakness of Centralized IT, Private Chains, and Public
Chains

Written by Tim Wagner.
In part 2 of the 3 Body Problem we explore the strengths and
weaknesses of blockchains and IT.
2022-04-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia Share and Smart APIs
Written by Tim Wagner.
Learn how Vendia Share helps APIs do more for you. If you can model
your data using JSON Schema and list the clouds and regions where you’
d like APIs to be present, Vendia Share can craft a secure, scalable,
production-grade deployment in a few minutes and then maintain it
automatically.
2022-04-06 ✍️ - 🛠️
What you need to know about APIs
Written by Tim Wagner.
And why building them is still such a challenge.
2022-04-06 ✍️ - 🛠️
Smart APIs: Rethinking how to stand up the modern API
Written by Tim Wagner.
Storing (your own) data isn’t particularly difficult and neither is
defining or standing up an API. But ensuring that the parties that API
connects are seeing the right data at the right times (and not seeing
data they shouldn’t see)? That's a hard problem we've solved.
2022-04-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
How blockchain did (and did not) pan out as a modern IT solutions
Written by Tim Wagner.
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.
2022-04-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
The Three-Body Problem
Written by Tim Wagner.
Forecast: Cloudy with a chance of Blockchain. How conventional IT,
private ledgers, and public blockchains will work together to usher in
the Web 3.0 era.
2022-03-30 ✍️ - 🛠️
Cloudy with Chance of Blockchain
Written by Tim Wagner.
How the cloud and public and private chains will power the web3 world.
2022-03-24 ✍️ - 🛠️
Add Data via SFTP to Vendia Share
Written by Vendia.
Send a CSV via SFTP to add data to your Uni.
2022-03-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Announcing synchronous mutations for Vendia Share
Written by Vendia Engineering.
Building applications on Vendia Share just got a lot easier! Today, we
are excited to announce synchronous mutations on Vendia Share.
2022-03-21 ✍️ - 🛠️
Are blockchains databases?
Written by Tim Wagner.
With some databases now supporting versioning and checksums and
blockchains storing more types of data, are databases and blockchain
technologies on a path to merge?.
2022-03-17 ✍️ - 🛠️
Adding Data in a CSV to Vendia Share Using Email
Written by Caroll Casbeer.
How to add a CSV file to your private blockchain with Vendia Share -
no GraphQL needed.
2022-03-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why GraphQL isn't sufficient for business blockchains — and what we did
about it

Written by Brian McNamara.
Learn how to enrich GraphQL with transactions, condition updates, and
ledgering on the Vendia Share data collaboration platform.
2022-03-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
Lean Apps Part 4: The Lean App Manifesto
Written by Tim Wagner.
Flip the innovation iceberg!.
2022-02-22 ✍️ - 🛠️
13 features you need to evaluate a business blockchain platform
Written by Vendia.
When evaluating a 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.
2022-02-18 ✍️ - 🛠️
Lean Apps Part 3: Let Infrastructure do the Dirty Work
Written by Tim Wagner.
Stop the undifferentiated heavy lifting!.
2022-02-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
Lean Apps Part 2: The Elements of a Lean App
Written by Tim Wagner.
Defining the ideal model of what a software application should look
like.
2022-02-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
My first 30 days at Vendia
Written by Vendia.
Caroll Casbeer, Head of Growth Marketing, shares her thoughts on her
first 30 days at Vendia — from onboarding to an offsite.
2022-02-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
The global supply chain is broken — can blockchain help?
Written by Vendia.
Multi-party data sharing with fine-grained controls is gaining
traction with more and more organizations looking to resolve failed
blockchain initiatives with next-gen enterprise blockchain solutions.
2022-02-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
Lean Apps Part 1: Lessons from the Past
Written by Tim Wagner.
Build software based on customer value, not technological ownership.
2022-02-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
The Lean App Movement
Written by Tim Wagner.
Optimize for outcomes that matter – not pointless, repetitive drudgery.
2022-02-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Multi-party data sharing with control
Written by James Gimourginas.
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.
2022-01-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to scale your data ecosystem with Vendia Share
Written by Brian McNamara.
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.
2022-01-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
Why we combined GraphQL and a serverless distributed ledger
Written by Brian McNamara.
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.
2022-01-18 ✍️ - 🛠️
Applying Domain Driven Design (DDD) to blockchains
Written by Vendia.
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.
2022-01-14 ✍️ - 🛠️
Real-Time cross-cloud data sharing
Written by James Gimourginas.
Understand event-driven processing using Vendia Share's new Azure
capabilities with insights from James Gimourginas, Director of
Solution Architecture and Customer Success.
2022-01-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
Schema Evolution
Written by Brian McNamara.
Exploring the ability to update the data model in a Universal
Application (Uni).
2021-12-15 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia's Response to CVE-2021-44228
Written by James Gimourginas.
A note on the impact to Vendia and our customers.
2021-12-13 ✍️ - 🛠️
Announcing Azure support, smart contracts, and new pricing plans for
Vendia Share

Written by Vendia Engineering.
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.
2021-12-09 ✍️ - 🛠️
Authenticating Vendia Share Requests Using SAML
Written by Brian McNamara.
Taking advantage of existing SAML Identity Providers when using Vendia
Share.
2021-11-02 ✍️ - 🛠️
Website Case Studies
Written by James Gimourginas.
Learn what Vendia customers and partners are building on the Share
platform.
2021-10-26 ✍️ - 🛠️
A Serverless Distributed Ledger for Enterprises
Written by Tim Wagner.
HICSS Talk Summary & Full Research Paper.
2021-10-22 ✍️ - 🛠️
Open Beta Changes
Written by James Gimourginas + Brian McNamara.
Changes to Vendia Share in advance of the Open Beta.
2021-10-12 ✍️ - 🛠️
Five Leadership Practices of an Ultramarathoner
Written by James Gimourginas.
How to win the long game, as demonstrated by Kevin Durdle, Vendia's
Ultramarathoner and Director of Software Development.
2021-09-27 ✍️ - 🛠️
What's your distributed application maturity model?
Written by James Gimourginas.
Use our distributed application maturity model to assess your
organization's present ability and future path to create and run
modern distributed applications that can connect people to their most
important information.
2021-09-07 ✍️ - 🛠️
Sharing Data with Fine-grained Control
Written by Brian McNamara.
Defining Data Access Among Partners in a Universal Application.
2021-09-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia's Inspiring Vision
Written by James Gimourginas.
Vendia will cause a paradigm shift that will impact many distributed
solutions, which is what attracted me to join the team.
2021-07-23 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing
Written by Tim Wagner + Shruthi Rao.
Vendia is included in Gartner's May 2021 Cool Vendors in Cloud
Computing report.
2021-06-08 ✍️ - 🛠️
Don't Rip and Replace - Integrate
Written by Brian McNamara.
Use Vendia Share to Complement Existing Data Stores.
2021-05-10 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia turns 1
Written by Tim Wagner.
Vendia celebrates its first year as a C-corporation. Thank you to our
customers, investors, employees, and the multitude of folks who've
offered their help, advice, and insight along the way.
2021-03-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
Announcing Vendia Share DLQ Support
Written by Tim Wagner.
Vendia Share now reports failed transactions.
2021-03-17 ✍️ - 🛠️
NEW Vendia Share indexing feature
Written by Tim Wagner.
Vendia Share now supports customer indices to improve data retrieval
performance.
2021-03-10 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to share Files in Vendia Share Unis
Written by Vendia.
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.
2021-02-18 ✍️ - 🛠️
How to create a cross-region serverless application in 5 minutes
Written by Brian McNamara.
Learn how to create cross-region serverless applications quickly with
Vendia Share.
2021-02-17 ✍️ - 🛠️
Announcing the Vendia Share Developer Preview!
Written by Tim Wagner + Shruthi Rao.
Launch announcement for the Vendia Share Developer Preview and
Vendia's Series A.
2021-02-03 ✍️ - 🛠️
Vendia Announces Series A Investment
Written by Tim Wagner + Shruthi Rao.
Vendia announces a $15.5M Series A investment, led by Canvas Ventures.
2021-02-02 ✍️ - 🛠️
Understanding Decentralization in the Cloud
Written by Tim Wagner.
Explore how decentralization works in a cloud-native setting and how
it can impact your business.
2021-02-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
STAMTI: A new model for delivering cloud-based services
Written by Tim Wagner.
Single-tenanted security versus multi-tenanted cost efficiency and
simplicity...do we really have to pick one of these options? Or is
there another approach that provides the benefits of single-tenant
occupancy with the ease of implementation and deployment that SaaS
enjoys?.
2021-01-31 ✍️ - 🛠️
The developer's punchlist for getting started with Vendia Share
Written by Vendia.
Whether you are a developer, business manager, or data scientist
getting started with Vendia Share is fast and easy. In 10 minutes of
less, you can start creating distributed real-time applications and
sharing data across clouds, accounts, regions, and partners without
sacrificing compliance or control.
2021-01-29 ✍️ - 🛠️
Quickstart: Track and trace for solving supply chain visibility problems
Written by Vendia.
Use this Vendia Share Track and Trace Quickstart for managing
logistics across multiple parties, regardless of their location and
technology stack.
2021-01-25 ✍️ - 🛠️
Kind humans really work here
Written by Brian McNamara.
Sr. Solutions Architect, Brian McNamara, reflects on his experience
"putting a company policy to the test" when his family needed extra
kindness and support.
2021-01-04 ✍️ - 🛠️
AWS Serverless Express finds a loving home at Vendia
Written by Tim Wagner.
Huzzah! The AWS Serverless Express open source project graduates from
AWS Labs and is now sponsored by Vendia.
2020-12-07 ✍️ - 🛠️
How tools impact products for real-time, multi-party data sharing
Written by Vendia.
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.
2020-11-16 ✍️ - 🛠️
Track and trace using Vendia Unis and Blobs
Written by Vendia.
Learn how Vendia Share's Unis and Blobs functionality can help
streamline common supply chain track & trace issues.
2020-11-05 ✍️ - 🛠️
Meet Vendia's founders
Written by Vendia.
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.
2020-07-01 ✍️ - 🛠️
Welcome to Vendia
Written by Vendia.
Our mission is to make it easy to share code and data across
companies, cloud, geographies, and technology stacks.
2020-06-30 ✍️ - 🛠️

Authors


Anders Maul

Brian McNamara

Caroll Casbeer

David McElligott

Francine Klein

Hailey Nevins

James Gimourginas

Renee Fujii

Ryan Green

Shruthi Rao

Tim Wagner

Alex Vukovic

Li Dai

Vendia Engineering

Product Release Notes

Releases Details Published-Date edit
Enhanced User Experience
An even easier way to deploy networks and share data
2023-05-31 ✍️
Erasibility & File Sharing Updates
Erasibility is now available on Vendia Share
2023-04-28 ✍️
Better Smart Contract And SSO Integration
New features such as SSO integration and smart contract status tracking is now available
2023-04-04 ✍️
Data Security, New Explorer, and Vendia Orgs
A release focusing on Data Security, Vendia's new GraphQL editor, and Vendia Orgs
2023-02-23 ✍️
No more creating unis in the wrong namespace and better CI/CD process
A release focusing on improved UI and additional CLI options
2023-01-27 ✍️
Tightened Security and Less Timeouts
We now have even better security and less timeouts!
2022-12-23 ✍️
Handling errors the GraphQL way and adding more results to your queries
We've updated response status codes and now allow up to 1000 results per query by Li Dai
2022-11-25 ✍️
We're .COMical, Neatly Nested, and More
Vendia is on .com, allows filtering on any nested attribute, updated SDK defaults, and enhanced experience within GraphQL Explorer
2022-10-28 ✍️
Giving You Even More Control
Vendia Share now supports defining ACLs on arrays and brings a new design to the UI
2022-09-26 ✍️
Staying Cool This Summer with New Features and Improvements
Result sorting, enhanced schema evolution, improved ingestion and consensus performance, geo-blocking and more
2022-08-26 ✍️
Improved Security, Performance and Transparency
Vendia Share supports more seure API Keys, JWT authentication, low latency operations, and Vendia Metrics
2022-07-15 ✍️
Developer Experience Improvements: a New SDK, Sync Mutations, and Invite Flow
Vendia Share now has a Typescript SDK, new synchronous mutations and an improved node invite flow
2022-04-15 ✍️
At Your Request: Managing Nodes, Bigger Files, and AWS Marketplace!
Vendia Share now supports node departure, 5GB file sharing, and can be purchased on the AWS Marketplace
2022-03-11 ✍️
Improved User Experience and Developer Experience
Vendia Share Node Details View gets a New Look, and Smart Contracts Editor improves developer productivity
2022-01-31 ✍️
Improved Usability, Reliability, and Speed…as a Service
We operate and maintain the Vendia Share platform as a service so you don't have to
2022-01-14 ✍️
Improving Smart Contracts Validation
Delivering improved validation and error handling
2021-12-24 ✍️
A Sleigh Full of New Features
Smart contracts, a pay-as-you-go pricing plan, the beta release of Azure support, and more!
2021-12-10 ✍️
New Features and a Fresh Look for the Vendia Share Web Application
We're excited to share the new Vendia Share user interface with you
2021-11-26 ✍️
What's that "csp" property doing in my Uni info configuration?
A first step toward an announcement we'll be able to share in the weeks ahead
2021-11-12 ✍️
Namespaces, Types, GraphQL Enums, and More!
Changes that will greatly improve data modeling capabilities for our users
2021-10-29 ✍️

How to contribute content

TDLR;

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  3. Commit to the repo

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Make sure to prefix post titles with the year, month and date in this format YYYY-MM-DD.

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description: 'This post is about awesome stuff!'
date: '2016-07-25'
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```js
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Example authors/DavidWells.json and DavidWells in the authors field below are the same name and capitalization.

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---

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Adding Images

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Example using an un-submitted "draft" github issue to grab an image link.

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Adding external posts

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Markdown Resources

Our blog posts are written in markdown and support standard Github flavored markdown. If you are new to Markdown, don't fret, check out this handy how to guide on writing in markdown

Need collaborative Google docs like editor for markdown? Try hackmd.io

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Need a local Markdown editor? Give stackedit.io, Byword or typora a spin. Or use your favorite programming IDE.

Need to convert a Google doc to Markdown? Install this Google Docs extension. If your doc has images, checkout how to download images from google docs. It's recommended to save it as an HTML file In Docs, go to File > Download as > Web Page (.html, zipped).

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