Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Remote Work 2020 AWS Hackathon: Outcomes & Innovations
The dust has settled at the Toads’ biannual hackathon, and what a ride it was!
Git
Top Five Lessons I Learned in 2020
Saying this has been an incredibly difficult year is an understatement. Both personally and professionally, we were all stretched, challenged, and...
Artificial Intelligence
Remote Work 2020 Hackathon: Branded Video Chat Software
What was the challenge/problem your team wanted to solve? Santa Claus was
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s 2020 Hackathon: AWS Remote Work Innovations
It’s hackathon time again at Metal Toad! Twice a year, we set aside the day-to-day and dive into an exciting 48-hour innovation whirlwind of rapid...
Artificial Intelligence
How Fast Can You Pivot?
This year was the year of being nimble, and it’s not been easy.
Media & Entertainment
AWS re:Invent Quick Guide for Media & Entertainment
In a year of radical change, one of the biggest transformations has been the massive shift to online entertainment and engagement—powered by the...
AWS re:Invent
re:Invent 2020: Not your average conference
Attending re:Invent 2020 from home, I navigate the sessions, focusing on Media, AI, and Security, while adapting to the virtual format to continue...
Artificial Intelligence
Awards Also Recognize Great Clients
We recently had some success I wanted to share. A product we built with WARN won a serious award at this year’s SEMA (Specialty Equipment...
Media & Entertainment
Agile Media Workflows + Cloud
Executive Interview with Lincoln Spiteri, VP of Engineering at Dalet. Lincoln has been in the telecommunications, media, and software industry for...
Machine Learning
But what is Phase 2??
I've been spending more time talking to clients about data engineering.
Artificial Intelligence
Data Lakes in Hollywood
Most people don't know that my experience in Hollywood goes back almost 20 years. My first real job was working at HOME BOX OFFICE (HBO) in the...
Business
Why Core Values Transform a Tech Company
We’re all familiar with the basic corporate American experience. You clock into work, perform your required tasks, and leave at the end of the day.
Artificial Intelligence
AWS Rekognition, Comprehend, and Transcribe
Babu Frik, an Anzellan droidsmith with a talent for bypassing droid security systems, erased C3PO's memory. He felt very sad about it. He decided to...
Hackathon
Live Stream From Drone To AWS With S3 Backup
Drones are awesome, and a lot of fun. But what happens if your drone gets lost along with all its footage?
Git
Remote live streaming to AWS Media Services from a DJI Spark drone
I’m Vaughn Hawk, a Cloud Engineer for Metal Toad for over 3 years.
Business
AWS MediaLive + Drones = Hackathon Fun
Hackathons! Weeeeeee!!!!! Am I right? I work in tech and I love it! I do not come from a technical background. Nope. I have decades of business...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad & AWS Media Services: What We Hacked
Wednesday, May 6th at 9:00 am: Toads are poised at the starting line. Metal Toad’s AWS Media Services hackathon is about to begin!
AWS DevOps
AWS Media Services + AWS Amplify
YouToad For the first Metal Toad hackathon of 2020, our goal was to build a web based social media platform for on demand video using AWS Media...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s AWS Media Services Hackathon
This is an exciting week at Metal Toad—it’s hackathon time! Twice a year, the Toads devote two full days to rapid innovation, and it’s always a blast.
Business
The Value of Values
Given the times it seems appropriate to lean back into some of the unique aspects of Metal Toad's work culture that I've had time to observe.
Machine Learning
How to do machine learning in AWS
After being immersed in hundreds of announcements and innovations and inspiring presentations at AWS re:Invent, the key insight I came away with was...
Machine Learning
AWS Personalize - AWS reInvent Insights
AWS Personalize, part of Amazon's suite of machine learning services, allows for creating highly curated experiences is a major differentiator for...
Artificial Intelligence
What is Xamarin?
Maybe I should start with a better question. Who doesn’t love free stuff? Guess what? Xamarin is F-R-E-E!!!! Yep! I’ll explain why this is...
Business
What Is Cloud Computing?
Discover the essentials of cloud computing and AWS, including benefits, potential drawbacks, and certification insights. Learn how cloud services...