Discover how Metal Toad's team utilized AWS services and ML to create a simple social network platform at their latest hackathon. Explore the...
'Freedom to Fail' is occasionally touted as a key way to learn, but actual freedom to fail in the workplace is rare, so it's a treat to be able to...
At some point in the last decade, you’ve probably bought a new computer. And at first, it’s great: performance is zippy, but after a few years,...
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
Explore the different meanings of managed services in the context of AWS. From AWS Managed Services to consulting partners and product offerings,...
AWS EC2 is short for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud.
Things are a little different this year at AWS re:Invent, but one thing remained un
Last week AWS wrapped up their latest AWS re:Invent Conference.
Executive Interview with Ian McPherson, AWS, Head of North American Partnerships and Alliances Media and Entertainment. Ian is a longtime marketing...
Cloud computing is: the delivery of services, on a pay-as-you go basis. It’s the availability of offsite computer system resources that offers...
Excited about the future of media and entertainment? Join us at the AWS Media Symposium in New York this year (March 11, 2020). We’re excited to be...
Early last year, AWS drastically increased the requirements for becoming ce
Over the years, we've perfected our own internal AWS standards regarding product management, scrum management, code quality, peer review,
Imagine this scenario: you want to build a new house, so you hire two people: an architect to design the structure and all the plumbing and wiring...
The Big Picture The aim of this blog post isn’t to get into the nitty gritty how to build and run a containerized app on your favorite cloud provider...
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...
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis.
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.
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.
My team’s most recent project has been really interesting - it’s a JavaScript project that includes using the Serverless Framework to deploy a...
I arrived in Portland two years ago with the intention of rebooting my career.
Many of us in DevOps/Cloud/Site Reliability/System Engineering have long been using Puppet to manage our Apache and Nginx configurations. However it...