When Metal Toad announced the theme of the winter Hackathon would be Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), those of us who have focu
Metal Toad’s winter 2018 hackathon was all about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR).
What is siloing? In order to better discuss how engineers and teams become siloed, as well as the positive and negative effects it can have on a team,
Software, like all things in life, grows old. In the world of software, we call this technical debt. Managing technical debt is like managing aging;...
Prior to coming to Metal Toad, I worked as a .NET engineer at an Internet of Things (IoT) startup.
Do you ever wish you had a certain tool, but didn't have the budget for it or knew it existed? I'm here to tell you something: you can build it!...
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...
A/B and Multivariate Testing is a staple of the product development lifecycle. Whatever your goal, testing should be a frequently used tool in your...
This year’s hackathon challenge was to explore the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud technology.
Do a search on “IoT projects” and you’ll turn up endless pages of fantastic Internet of Things ideas and examples.
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...
I spend all my time at work dealing with software. So going into this year’s hackathon, I was excited to get hands-on (and in over my head) with...
The very concept of automation leads to a moral and ethical dilemma regarding the workforce.
I've long been curious about the effectiveness of the built-in antennas that are attached to common WiFi modules.
Like anything else in its early lifecycle, the Internet of Things (IoT) has a ton of hype but there are still a lot of unknowns when it comes to the...
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis.
One of the biggest announcements for Android developers from Google IO 2018 was the announcement of
At our company we are known for having a great culture. You can feel it when you walk in: people are at ease, they obviously enjoy what they do and...
Part 2 in a series on the different roles I end up carrying out as a Quality Assurance Engineer. This segment: DevOps QA. What that means, how I got...
Quality Assurance Engineer is a broad term that can cover a wide variety of roles and responsibilities.
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.
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).