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Recently, Google launched the first developer preview build of Android P.
When I was fresh out of college with a Computer Science degree, I had a culture-fueled fantasy of what it was to grow into a senior software engineer.
In popular culture and societal norms there is little space within romantic relationships to air your grievances about your partner.
IoT is rapidly transforming manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and several other industries. The ability to predict asset failure, rapidly diagnosis...
“MTBLS”: I first encountered this phrase on a New Relic blog.
We are heavy users of Bamboo for Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI / CD).
Bamboo / GitHub integration isn't perfect – perhaps because Atlassian wants to steer you towards Bitbucket (their GitHub competitor). Out of the box,...
In the practice of Agile Project Management, it has long been assumed that a Scrum Master (also referred to at Metal Toad as Agile Project Manager)...
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.
I've always been a map geek, dating back to the 1980s when I would take a road atlas and some tracing paper and draw in my own road network. And one...
In 2018, make it a goal to interact with as many users of your application as possible. Even better, start a formal practice of testing your...
The next decade will bring a society-changing transformation to smart, connected things throughout our personal, professional, and public lives....
In software, a feature backlog is no different than a warehouse of slowly rotting, unused goods. When you think of software features, think of...
There's a lot of talk about digital transformation these days. I think undoubtably this movement - transforming as many processes from analog to...
We're just past the second anniversary of 8.0.0. To see how D8 is doing compared to prior releases, we put together the chart above, based on...
User interfaces have evolved over time.
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...
Learn how to set up and manage AWS Snowflake, including architecture, data handling, and loading data with expert guidance from Metal Toad.
The Raspberry Pi is great if you want a dedicated device for a task that you can turn on, get it to do its thing and leave it alone.
Angular 4.3 introduced a new HttpClient service, which is a replacement for the Http service from Angular 2. It works mostly the same as the old...
Background and problem description In late 2016 we were approached with an opportunity to build a data pipeline for one of our large clients.
In my last post, I wrote about the cost of tech debt, using a case study of skyrocketing hardware costs.
Over the past year I've been building a cloud-based data pipeline for a client focusing on IoT data aggregation.