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My Summer Journey at Metal Toad: An Internship Reflection
My Summer Journey at Metal Toad: An Internship Reflection
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Education
What is Amazon Quicksight?
If you're looking for a powerful, cloud-based business intelligence service, Amazon QuickSight deserves serious consideration.
machine learning
ML Augmented Development (1 of 3)
In the last few months, the world has come to know ChatGPT as a source for ML generated writing.
Artificial Intelligence
What is AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda, for those not familiar with it, is an event driven serverless (what is serverless?) platform for compute resources
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...
The Cloud
The Future of Cloud Security
1) What is the state of cloud security today? Cloud security today is
Artificial Intelligence
How to avoid malware
The SUNBURST malware, likely of Russian origin, was a remarkable and devastating breach of cybersecurity. The data gathered will likely advantage the...
The Cloud
Cloud risk reduction
The morning sun from my home in Los Angeles is blood red as it shines through the smoke.
The Cloud
Remote live streaming to AWS Media Services from a DJI Spark drone
I’m Vaughn Hawk, a Cloud Engineer for Metal Toad for over 3 years.
Artificial Intelligence
Hackathon Collaboration with Live Share on Visual Studio
One of the challenges of participating remotely in a Hackathon is the ability to cooperate with your team in anything like being there in person. No...
The Cloud
What is serverless?
Recently the term "serverless" has been thrown a lot in reference to provisioned, on demand functions invoked by a cloud provider, as a service....
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad launches Remote-First Work Policy
“If you want the best talent, limiting yourself to the talent that’s available in a single city (let alone a single country) is shooting yourself in...
The Cloud
Docker Containers & Clustering/Orchestration
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Missing a Development Tool? Make Your Own!
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!...
AngularJS
Angular API Calls with Django, Part 2: Building the Micro-Blog App
This is the second part of a two-part series exploring the use of the Angular 6 HttpClient to make API calls against a Django back-end using Django...
The Cloud
Hackathon 2018: Four Guys in a Garage. On Laptops. In a Minivan.
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...
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...
Artificial Intelligence
How Static Code Analysis Taught Me About Change Management
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis.
Agile
DevOps QA: The Many Hats of a Quality Assurance Engineer
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...
AWS
How to Integrate GitHub PRs with Bamboo CI
Bamboo / GitHub integration isn't perfect – perhaps because Atlassian wants to steer you towards Bitbucket (their GitHub competitor). Out of the box,...
Artificial Intelligence
Turning Your UI Into a Well Organized Symphony With Conductor
User interfaces have evolved over time.
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Django 2.0 - Is your project ready?
Django 2.0 is in beta now. It's expected to be released in December 2017. The question remains, is the rest of the world going to be ready? Let's...
The Cloud
Managing IIS Configuration With Puppet Powershell DSC
Many of us in DevOps/Cloud/Site Reliability/System Engineering have long been using Puppet to manage our Apache and Nginx configurations. However it...