Puppet
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...
The Launch of Swift 2.0
Ever since Grace Hopper came up with the A language programmers have been trying to create new languages and processes that make it easier to do work...
Using Monitoring to meet Managed Services SLAs
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
Why Portland will be the Next Tech Hub
The demand for software continues to rise. I've written before on the current workforce gap and how that gap will be filled through vocational...
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
The 2013 Emmys Leverage AWS
When preparing for a big event, it is our job to make sure the general public sees exactly what is expected, and with the help of Amazon Web Service...
The Emmys Chooses Drupal 7
For those who watched the Primetime Emmys last night the content management system (CMS) used to support the website probably didn't matter all that...
Puppet Labs Chooses Drupal
Puppet Labs launched with an amazing new responsive website, powered by Drupal.
TinyDNS as a Puppet Module
As a data center operator we are in need of DNS handling for our internal servers and appliances. Handling IP’s for everything is not really an...