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AWS reInvent: what to expect 2021

As an award-winning AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS managed services provider, we are pumped about the

Metal Toad Recognized as Key Partner For New AWS Media & Entertainment Initiative

Metal Toad is proud to be recognized as a key partner for the recently launched AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative. Metal Toad received special...

Workplace Dress Code

As I was deciding what to write about in a blog for a software company, I didn’t recall anyone writing one here about fashion or dress code at the...

THE NEW HOME OFFICE MODEL

Technology has brougth great benefits to society and organizations such as:

5 Time Management Tips That Work

Time management is a decision-making process with the intention of planning and organizing how you divide the time to be spent on specific activities...

AGILE METHODOLOGY

WHAT WOULD IT BE?

5 Reasons Why You Should Write Every Day

When you hear the word “writing,” what image comes to mind?

The Power of a Personal Retrospective

Metal Toad first introduced the concept of a retrospective to me in 2014. As an agile software company, our teams undertake retrospectives (retros)...

Thoughts on 2021 StackOverflow Developer Survey

The StackOverflow Annual Developer Survey measures the developer community

Fostering Genuine Connections in a Virtual World

In a pandemic year, everyone is scrambling to keep afloat.

Artificial Intelligence and the Cyberpunk dream

I was always amazed at the way the media convinced me that Artificial Intelligences would think, behave and act like human beings. That made me look...

Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Content Distribution

The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management,...

Understanding Cloud Media Workloads: Content Creation, Media Supply Chain & Content Distribution

The impact of the Cloud on Media & Entertainment is profound. Gain a holistic executive viewpoint of key insights into the M&E industry, end-to-end...

Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Media Supply Chain

The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management,...

Digital Rights Management and the Cloud

As the CEO of BuyDRM, Christopher provides key insight and management to staff based around the world, as part of BuyDRM’s mission to deliver the...

TestNG versus JUnit: Making the Right Choice

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.

Running FaaS on Linux Mint 19.3 with Kubeless

FaaS, the acronym for Function as a Service, is a cloud computing service that allows developers to build, run, and manage applications as functions...

Ecommerce trends 2021

I recently bought a t-shirt online. Printed on the shirt is a hilarious mash-up of a cartoon from the 80s (He-Man) and a modern-day meme ("do you...

Media Orchestration + Cloud

With over 23 years in the industry, Art Raymond has been involved in media and advertising for the totality of his career. From the very beginning,...

The Future of Cloud Security

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

Back to work

For the first time in 12 months, I am exploring options for an actual office space outside of my home.  As many of you know, Metal Toad went...

Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Content Creation

The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management,...

Tips to manage stress

In this pandemic`s time we are all living, stress can be really part of our lives. We all have stress sometimes in our life, at work, at home, and on...

How to host a virtual conference

This article first appeared in the Metal Toad newsletter.