This week Amazon had problems with its Simple Storage Service (S3) which affected a number of prominent services including Quora the Q&A site and the popular Slack team-communication system.

For full details of what happened you can read Amazon's disclosure. But in summary, a user typed a command incorrectly …

Andrew and I are on a mission to reduce the cost and effort of building Rave studies by 50%. It's an ambitious goal but nothing really worth doing is easy.

One of the most costly areas of study build is the writing and testing of Edit Checks. So lets take …

One of the things that makes writing software for the clinical trials market different to writing software for, say, the consumer market is the need to Validate the product. I write it in scary bold font because I think this requirement does deter would-be startup founders in our industry. So …