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Nathan Wilkerson, VP of Engineering

Nathan Wilkerson, VP of Engineering at Metal Toad.

Stories by Nathan


The Cloud

Lambda SnapStart

AWS re:Invent is in full swing and with it come new services that people have been asking for.

The Cloud

Managed Services for AWS

Explore the different meanings of managed services in the context of AWS. From AWS Managed Services to consulting partners and product offerings,...

The Cloud

How to choose the right cloud provider

The promise of cloud technology has spawned tremendous innovation by some of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world.

machine learning

Automated Content Moderation with AWS Machine Learning

The AWS Rekognition POC enables companies the ability to moderate user-generated videos using machine learning. Designed by Metal Toad and Mux. Learn...

Artificial Intelligence

What is AWS EC2?

AWS EC2 is short for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud.

The Cloud

Kubeless: Role your own FaaS

All major cloud offerings have a Function as a Service (FaaS) tool. AWS offers Lambda, Azure offers Functions, GCP offers Cloud Functions.

Artificial Intelligence

Setup a NAS on AWS

As part of Metal Toad’s Managed Services Team, I have worked extensively in custom cloud based solutions.

The Cloud

Chaos Engineering & AWS CloudShell

Our CTO, Tony Rost, sat down with engineering manager Nathan Wilkerson to talk about his key takeaways from this year’s re:Invent: Chaos Engineering...

AWS

AWS Chime: Lessons learned

A lot has changed during 2020. One is the number of people working remotely. That’s the Q4 hackathon theme was “Remote Work in 2020”.

AWS

Lambda: javascript vs python

For this hackathon we created a product, YouToad, using Amplify

The Cloud

Lessons from Disney+ Launch

We have been waiting, like many people, for the launch of Disney+. We were genuinely disappointed by the outages and management issues that were...

machine learning

Advantages of Google Cloud

Choosing a cloud provider can be a difficult process that has long-term impacts to productivity, cost, and features.

Agile

Devopsing a Legacy World

Devops has been picking up steam since around the year 2009. ( It could be argued it was around in other forms longer but for argument's sake let's...

Artificial Intelligence

NFS Performance on AWS

Last year, I wrote a blog about the performance of various NFS Solutions in AWS.

The Cloud

Cloud Architecture: AWS CloudFormation

In my previous blog series, Evolution of a Custom Cloud, I went over how our base design for a custom cloud has improved and how we setup our current...

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