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Here at Vinta we believe that programmers, not processes, nor code, are the most important assets on software engineering. Due to that, we believe in using every tool available in order to facilitate our programmers' lives.

Here at Vinta we believe that programmers, not processes, nor code, are the most important assets on software engineering. Due to that, we believe in using every tool available in order to facilitate our programmers' lives.

Integrating with external services is painful. At Vinta, we build and deal with both public and private APIs on the daily basis. Having worked in many of those projects I can safely tell that we are currently in hell when it comes to integrations.

Integrating with external services is painful. At Vinta, we build and deal with both public and private APIs on the daily basis. Having worked in many of those projects I can safely tell that we are currently in hell when it comes to integrations.

The term "software multitenancy" refers to a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants.

The term "software multitenancy" refers to a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants.

Here are some very useful tools that can assist you while developing, debugging and testing web APIs.

Here are some very useful tools that can assist you while developing, debugging and testing web APIs.

We are in the era of Software as a Service and microservices. From the techinical point of view this means we are writting more web APIs than we use to. This also means we need to build clients to free our souls from dealing with bare HTTP. This doesn't mean we should separate this much from HTTP

We are in the era of Software as a Service and microservices. From the techinical point of view this means we are writting more web APIs than we use to. This also means we need to build clients to free our souls from dealing with bare HTTP. This doesn't mean we should separate this much from HTTP

Git is a great tool but since you only need to know a small subset of commands to use it, people end up not knowing a bunch of awesome features of it. Some of my favourites are blame, bisect and rebase.

Git is a great tool but since you only need to know a small subset of commands to use it, people end up not knowing a bunch of awesome features of it. Some of my favourites are blame, bisect and rebase.

A common problem appears when uploading large files to Heroku. Every request made to Heroku must last less than 30 seconds or it will get terminated, when uploading large files, 30 seconds might not be enough. Here is how to circumvent that with Amazon S3

A common problem appears when uploading large files to Heroku. Every request made to Heroku must last less than 30 seconds or it will get terminated, when uploading large files, 30 seconds might not be enough. Here is how to circumvent that with Amazon S3

Classy Django REST Framework, a web-based documentation with flattened information about Django REST Framework's class-based views and serializers. It is heavily based on Classy Class-based View and users familiar with it will feel right at home.

Classy Django REST Framework, a web-based documentation with flattened information about Django REST Framework's class-based views and serializers. It is heavily based on Classy Class-based View and users familiar with it will feel right at home.

This is a quick guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor (which combine static files and minificate them).

This is a quick guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor (which combine static files and minificate them).

It’s common among web developers, and mainly the ones who are developing web APIs, to face problems related to CORS. Wanna know how to use CORS in Django and understand better how it works under the hood? Don't worry. We will explain.

It’s common among web developers, and mainly the ones who are developing web APIs, to face problems related to CORS. Wanna know how to use CORS in Django and understand better how it works under the hood? Don't worry. We will explain.