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Harbor is clinical trial software built for compliance and designed for humans. Get better data, quicker answers, and faster submissions.
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Building Automatic, Contextual Clinical Trial Audit Logging in Postgres Without Triggers
Software subject to 21 CFR Part 11 requirements cannot afford best-effort audit logging: missing even a few records is a compliance failure. We needed audit trails that triggered automatically on every write to Postgres and carried rich business context.
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How We Model Clinical Trial Data When Every Trial Is Different
When every clinical trial has a different data model, relational databases struggle with changes while NoSQL trades off safety for flexibility. Here's how Harbor uses a constrained EAV model in Postgres, taking advantage of relational guardrails and Zod-p
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Why We Love Functional Programming but Don't Use Effect-TS
We embrace functional programming patterns and principles throughout our full-stack TypeScript codebase, making ample use of libraries and tools like ts-pattern, Jotai, and Terraform to write declarative, composable, and type-safe code. That said, we don'
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Using Atomic State to Improve React Performance in Deeply Nested Component Trees
Atomic state has enabled us to build complex, deeply nested React component trees in our clinical trial data capture application without trading off render performance or developer ergonomics. Here's a very brief overview of the difference between vanilla
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How We Use Terraform in Local Dev for Reproducible, High-Fidelity Development Environments
Terraform allows us to quickly spin up high-fidelity local development environments that share the same infrastructure-as-code configuration that we deploy to production. Here's exactly how we use Terraform to configure Docker, Postgres, S3-compatible sto
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