Background and problem description In late 2016 we were approached with an opportunity to build a data pipeline for one of our large clients.
Over the past year I've been building a cloud-based data pipeline for a client focusing on IoT data aggregation.
Amazon has been steadily improving their CloudFront CDN offering with WAF (Web Application Firewall) capabilities. This is a great feature, however...
My team’s most recent project has been really interesting - it’s a JavaScript project that includes using the Serverless Framework to deploy a...
Insights from DevOpsDays PDX: Discover the significance of DevOps culture, testing, and engagement in enhancing collaborative development practices.
I arrived in Portland two years ago with the intention of rebooting my career.
Streamline IIS configuration with Puppet and PowerShell DSC. Learn how to manage your Windows deployments efficiently without System Center.
I just attended Monitorama in Portland, and I wanted to talk about my experience!
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
Whether you’re running on premise datacenter, using a private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosting platform, security is extremely...
Ever since Grace Hopper came up with the A language programmers have been trying to create new languages and processes that make it easier to do work...
Evaluating the performance and cost of AWS EFS, GlusterFS, and SoftNAS Cloud for NFS solutions in AWS environments to identify the best choice.
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
The demand for software continues to rise. I've written before on the current workforce gap and how that gap will be filled through vocational...
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
Re-evaluating AWS NAS performance with Zadara Storage, Gluster, and SoftNAS to identify the most consistent and efficient solution for various file...
Exploring essential tools for Drupal/PHP development, SCSS techniques, and insights on balancing front-end and back-end tasks for junior developers.
Oregon's health exchange struggled with costly failures, prompting a call for open source solutions to save taxpayers money and improve functionality.
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
Rapidly install PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 by compiling from source, including essential libraries. Follow our step-by-step guide for a quick setup.
Monitoring web page load times efficiently using a custom Ruby script for Munin to avoid timeouts and ensure comprehensive resource loading.