Machine Learning
Team Knock-Knock Answers the “Who’s There?” Question With AR
Metal Toad’s winter 2018 hackathon was all about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR).
Artificial Intelligence
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
Hackathon 2018: Four Guys in a Garage. On Laptops. In a Minivan.
This year’s hackathon was all about the Internet of Things (IoT)—pulling data from the real world and sending it to the cloud, then finding ways to...
Artificial Intelligence
What Is DevOps & How to Achieve It
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
Artificial Intelligence
NFS Performance on AWS
Evaluating the performance and cost of AWS EFS, GlusterFS, and SoftNAS Cloud for NFS solutions in AWS environments to identify the best choice.
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Architecture: AWS CloudFormation
Discover how AWS CloudFormation revolutionizes cloud architecture by automating resource creation, reducing errors, and enhancing the building custom...
Drupal
Capistrano Deploy to dynamic AWS EC2
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
Security
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 2 "Building the Cloud"
In part 1 we covered our Architecture for the Custom Cloud.
Artificial Intelligence
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
AWS DevOps
AWS NAS Test Part 2
Re-evaluating AWS NAS performance with Zadara Storage, Gluster, and SoftNAS to identify the most consistent and efficient solution for various file...
AWS Managed Services
AWS Managed Services Dashboard - Part 2: Tools for Logging
Explore how Logstash, Redis, StatsD, and Graphite power Metal Toad's managed services dashboard for data visualization and logging in this insightful...
AWS Managed Services
AWS Managed Services Dashboard - Part 1: The New Dashboard
Metal Toad unveils a streamlined Managed Services Dashboard, integrating tools like Graphite, Pingdom, and Nagios for efficient server monitoring and...
Professional Skills from Raising a Newborn
This last month my wife and I had a new baby. Since this was my second child, I spent less time panicking and more time preparing for the bundle of...