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A Primer on Digital Therapeutics Software Testing

Digital therapeutics (DTx) companies provide software-backed therapeutic interventions to help prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. For example, health tech unicorn Hinge Health partners advanced wearable sensors, mobile applications, and a clinical care team to enable digital physical therapy for elective musculoskeletal (MSK) surgeries, driving lower costs and a reduction in medical claims.

Bridging the Gap Between Oracle Operational Reporting and Analytics with Angles for Oracle ERP

As Business Intelligence (BI) tools, data warehousing solutions, and enterprise data and application landscapes have advanced, it’s worth taking the time to rethink that old model, starting with the dichotomy between operational reporting (OR) and strategic analytics. There is a clear difference between operational reporting and BI, but they can and should work together. Companies use one or the other, and if they have both, there is a gap between them.

10 Critical E-commerce Metrics To Track Unified Customer Insights

Digital industries have come a long way in recognizing the value of their customers' data for making well-informed and timely decisions. Businesses invest a lot in implementing innovative strategies, but they also need some metrics to observe the effectiveness or success of those strategies to drive future decisions. Like any other industry, metrics in the e-commerce industry are quantifiable measures of an online business's performance.

How to Write a Functor in Elixir

There’s a function called Enum.map in Elixir that works on multiple collection types, but it's not without its issues. In this post, I will introduce you to a concept from functional programming called a functor. We’ll make a Functor protocol with a function called fmap that will aspire to be a better version of Enum.map. Note: The article is inspired by the Witchcraft library, which we covered in one of our previous posts. But first: what's the problem with Enum.map exactly?

How to Fix the EOFException in Java.io

The java.io.EOFException is a checked exception in Java that occurs when an end of file or end of stream is reached unexpectedly during input. This exception is mainly used by data input streams to signal end of stream. Since EOFException is a checked exception, it must be explicitly handled in methods that can throw this exception - either by using a try-catch block or by throwing it using the throws clause.

10 best practices for building a modern data stack

Companies are tightening the belts with one exception: data. The modern data stack shows no signs of a recession with Frank Slootman the CEO of Snowflake saying at their annual user conference they will not slow hiring plans. CNBC Tech Council executives noted how technology investments are business drivers, not cost centers. And Foundry’s annual cloud computing survey cites cloud analytics as a top growth driver. A digital economy is fueling this growth in the data sector.