AUTHOR

Tony Rost, Chief Technology Officer

Stories by Tony


The Future of Cloud Security

1) What is the state of cloud security today? Cloud security today is

How to Host a Website on AWS in 5 Minutes

For most casual website owners, it’s often easy to simply use a hosting provider with built in support for their CMS and integrating analytics....

How to pick the best Headless CMS

In the past few years, Metal Toad has increasingly migrated clients to headless CMS providers to reduce costs, improve the conten

How to avoid malware

The SUNBURST malware, likely of Russian origin, was a remarkable and devastating breach of cybersecurity. The data gathered will likely advantage the...

Takeaways from 2020

This was a bizarre year that delivered a mix of stress and opportunities. I found new hobbies, new tricks for remote working, and new ways of...

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...

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...

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...

Building a AWS Headless CMS

Over the past several years, Metal Toad has launched several successful cloud-first web and mobile applications, often with hardware components. With...

Metal Toad launches Remote-First Work Policy

“If you want the best talent, limiting yourself to the talent that’s available in a single city (let alone a single country) is shooting yourself in...

My daily use of the Five Levels of Leadership

Over a year ago, I read John Maxwell’s “The Five Levels of Leadership”.  Since then, I’ve grown increasingly reliant on it’s simple model.

The Four Quadrants of IoT Revenue Streams

The next decade will bring a society-changing transformation to smart, connected things throughout our personal, professional, and public lives....

There are no estimates, only budgets

The challenge of estimating software projects is that software is a creative act: you can paint a line, or you can paint a Monet. Every person...

Top 5 Ways Executives Destroy Agile Companies

A few months ago, a senior executive of a large company asked me, “With our Agile transformation, how am I going to screw it up?” The question shook...

A Sense of Software Craftsmanship

When leaders view software development as an assembly line, they expose themselves to a lot of pain: overages, missed timelines, and disappointed...

Web Agencies Need Code Review

Web design and development agencies are lacking in code review practices, and our collective clients are suffering as a result.

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