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CES 2022: A Quick Guide

Stay updated on CES 2022! Discover must-attend sessions, top keynote speakers, and essential tips for making the most of this premier tech event.

Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Identifying Downed Power Lines

From our online hackathon, read Team Brazuca's journey on using machine learning to create a model that can identify downed power lines.

Announcing The Metal Toad Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Building Your Own Machine Learning Model

It's that magical time of the year - our hackathon is back! Twice a year, we set aside the day-to-day and dive into an exciting 48-hour innovation...

Where is AWS going? 3 Trends From AWS re:Invent 2021

Curious about what topics were talked about at AWS re:Invent 2021? Read about the three trends here.

AWS re:Invent 2021 Day 1 Recap

Wondering how the first day of AWS re:Invent 2021 went? Find out in this blog article from our Front-End Thermer Laura Boemo.

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda, for those not familiar with it, is an event driven serverless (what is serverless?) platform for compute resources

Brazil’s Best: Metal Toad Wins 2021 Clutch Award for Top IT Outsourcing Company

From Los Angeles to Brazil Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, California, Metal Toad is an award-winning

Planning for Uncertainty: 7 Key Principles for Creating an Excellent Roadmap

Roadmaps are important. My summer plans often involve traveling with my f

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

Learn how to deploy serverless functions using Kubeless on Kubernetes as an open-source alternative to cloud-based FaaS solutions.