The Cloud
Lambda SnapStart
AWS re:Invent is in full swing and with it come new services that people have been asking for.
TOPIC
Node.js
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
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Remote Work 2020 AWS Hackathon: Outcomes & Innovations
The dust has settled at the Toads’ biannual hackathon, and what a ride it was!
AWS
AWS Chime: Lessons learned
A lot has changed during 2020. One is the number of people working remotely. That’s the Q4 hackathon theme was “Remote Work in 2020”.
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!...
AWS
Your Serverless Function has a Secret
Your serverless function has a secret... maybe it's a password for a remote API, a private key, or signing certificate.
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
Instant reload with Django, NPM, and Browsersync
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Running a Persistant Node.js Server on an Arduino Yún
We recently had occasion to set up a Node.js web server on an Arduino Yún. It's a bit more complicated than we thought when we set out, so it seemed...
Artificial Intelligence
Simple password grants with OAuth 2.0 and Drupal
Like many Drupal developers, we have become big fans of decoupled front-ends using Drupal as a RESTful backend (a.k.a. "headless" Drupal). The myriad...
Agile
Agile Resource Planning at a Fixed-Bid Drupal Dev Shop
On any given month, Metal Toad Media will distribute the work for 25-30 different clients across 10 different development resources. The majority of...
Drupal
PlaceZombies.com!
Who can resist zombies? They’re everywhere! But on the internet, they are facing an uphill battle against the kittehs. They were dealt a heavy blow...
Database
Using Node and CouchDB to get things done
As I mentioned earlier, I love JavaScript. Today, I'd like to talk about how to use it to get (fun) things done.
Drupal
My First DrupalCon – Tips for n00bs
I know it’s hard to believe I’ve never been to a DrupalCon, but it’s true.