Artificial Intelligence
The robots are painting
A lot has been said in the media about AI generated art, but how does it actually work (from a human perspective)?
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Design
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Prompt Engineering Hackathon
In this latest event, in the last week of September we embarked on a journey to learn how to work with prompt engineering, unleashing the power of...
Artificial Intelligence
Biggest Pitfalls When Building a SaaS Application
Building a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application can be a rewarding endeavor, but it's important to be aware of potential pitfalls that can hinder...
Artificial Intelligence
Implementing RedShift
Implementing Amazon Redshift, a popular data warehousing solution provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), requires careful planning to ensure optimal...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Approach to Implementing Quicksight
Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence (BI) tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to create interactive and visually...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Step by Step Approach in Implementing RedShift: One Sheet
Amazon Redshift is a powerful data warehousing solution provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to analyze large datasets with high...
The Cloud
Top 10 things IT departments miss when setting up AWS
Getting started in AWS is easy. Anyone can do it! That said, when IT departments set up their own AWS cloud environments, they almost always miss...
The Cloud
AWS Partner Proof of Concept Funding
Discover how to test workloads and reduce IT costs with AWS Partner Proof of Concept funding. Explore the possibilities of AWS Cloud today!
Artificial Intelligence
What is AWS Control Tower?
You are up and running in the AWS cloud. You've done multiple PoCs, and you have a number of workloads using S3, EC2 and multiple RDS databases. So...
Interviews
How to earn an AWS Machine Learning Competency
Since it's inception, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has been a leading provider of cloud computing services and in recent years has established itself as...
The Cloud
ReactJS Amplify App Part I - Overview and Auth
This is a three part post about our experience using AWS Amplify to develop a food logging app for the Metal Toad hackathon. Here in part one we...
machine learning
Performance enhancements with Amazon Neptune
Querying performance enhancements with Neptune versus DynamoDB with OpenSearch.
machine learning
Use AI for marketing content instead of using Lorem Ipsum
Writing compelling content for marketing purposes can be a daunting task.
The Cloud
What does Metal Toad do?
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
Artificial Intelligence
Serverless Best Practice Resources
My last Session for re:Invent was on optimizing Lambda.
Business
My Promotion to UX Designer
As a new UX Designer, Laura Chaves shares the story of her new role, how she got started, and what she's excited about. Click to read the full story.
Education
NAB Show 2022: A Quick Guide
NAB Show is back in-person and better than ever! View our quick guide to learn about the event and the answers to some of the most common questions.
Agile
SAFe POPM vs. CSPO - Which Product Owner Certification is The Best?
Comparing SAFe POPM and CSPO certifications for Product Owners. Discover which certification is best for your career and the benefits they offer.
machine learning
3 Ways To Use Machine Learning: December 2021 Hackathon Overview
With a new emphasis on machine learning, our December 2021 Hackathon focused on building your own machine learning model. Learn about what our Toads...
machine learning
Amazon SageMaker
What is Amazon SageMaker? If you are new to the machine learning development world you not know what you need to know about Amazon SageMaker
The Cloud
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.
Business
Planning for Uncertainty: 7 Key Principles for Creating an Excellent Roadmap
Roadmaps are important. My summer plans often involve traveling with my f
Design
Fostering Genuine Connections in a Virtual World
In a pandemic year, everyone is scrambling to keep afloat.
The Cloud
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.
Artificial Intelligence
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...