AWS
Dealing with AWS Secrets Manager managed credential rotation
How to run arbitrary code the Secrets Manager rotates.
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AWS Managed Services
The Cloud
What does Metal Toad do?
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
The Cloud
Managed Services for AWS
Explore the different meanings of managed services in the context of AWS. From AWS Managed Services to consulting partners and product offerings,...
The Cloud
AWS reInvent: what to expect 2021
As an award-winning AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS managed services provider, we are pumped about the
The Cloud
How to Host a Website on AWS in 5 Minutes
For most casual website owners, it’s often easy to simply use a hosting provider with built in support for their CMS and integrating analytics....
The Cloud
Cloud technology in Los Angeles
Los Angeles' Scope Los Angeles is a massive metropolis. While only #18 by population - with a mere 18.7 million people - Los Angeles is
The Cloud
What is AWS Cloud?
How AWS Cloud works, how AWS got started and how much of the cloud market AWS controls in 2020.
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Cloud + Live Events
As CIO at sports and music entertainment giant AEG, Bill Martin drives the convergence of business and technology to deliver innovative success. Bill...
machine learning
How to do machine learning in AWS
After being immersed in hundreds of announcements and innovations and inspiring presentations at AWS re:Invent, the key insight I came away with was...
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AWS Media Symposium—Miami 2020
We’re excited about the AWS Media Symposium in Miami this year (February 13, 2020).
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AWS re:Invent Insights—Amazon Rekognition
As the CEO of an AWS managed services company I go to a lot of events and conferences (talking to fellow cloud evangelists is one of the best parts...
machine learning
AWS Partner Requirements Expand Metal Toad's Knowledge
Early last year, AWS drastically increased the requirements for becoming ce
The Cloud
Building a AWS Headless CMS
Over the past several years, Metal Toad has launched several successful cloud-first web and mobile applications, often with hardware components. With...
The Cloud
The Cloud is More Secure Than Your Facility
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal ominously titled Capital One Breach Casts Shad
AWS
An Overview of Redux Middleware for React Applications
While working with large React applications, having a solid Redux architecture can keep data flow clean and easy to debug. A common point of...
AWS
Angular API Calls with Django: Authentication with JWT
Curious about how to make API calls with Angular 6 and the HttpClient service? This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled...
AWS
Angular 5: Making API calls with the HttpClient service
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...
AWS
Drupal 8 Entity API cheat sheet
Wait, is it "$node->title" or "$node->title->value"? How do I write an EntityQuery again? Yeah, I can never remember, either.
The Cloud
Using Serverless Config to Deploy an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard
My team’s most recent project has been really interesting - it’s a JavaScript project that includes using the Serverless Framework to deploy a...
Agile
User Story Insights Using Google Sheets
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...
AWS
Angular 2: HTTP, Observables, and concurrent data loading
How to run multiple concurrent HTTP requests, with the callbacks running only after all of them have completed with Angular 2.
AWS
AngularJS: Adding a user-friendly default option to ng-options
Angular's ng-options directive provides a nifty way to build a select element based on an array in your scope. It can even bind the options to...
Artificial Intelligence
NFS Performance on AWS
Last year, I wrote a blog about the performance of various NFS Solutions in AWS.
The Cloud
Using Monitoring to meet Managed Services SLAs
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.