The Cloud
What Is Cloud Computing?
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...
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Artificial Intelligence
Null Space Labs Tuesday Open Meeting & Game Night
Null Space Labs hosts an open meeting and game night every Tuesday.
The Cloud
How to win with the AWS Well Architected Framework
Over the years, we've perfected our own internal AWS standards regarding product management, scrum management, code quality, peer review,
The Cloud
The Cloud is More Secure Than Your Facility
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal ominously titled Capital One Breach Casts Shad
The Cloud
Three Lessons Learned from Working in IoT
Prior to coming to Metal Toad, I worked as a .NET engineer at an Internet of Things (IoT) startup.
Agile
Devopsing a Legacy World
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...
The Cloud
"Hack the Plants" — Five Lessons Learned from an IoT Adventure
Do a search on “IoT projects” and you’ll turn up endless pages of fantastic Internet of Things ideas and examples.
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...
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.
Artificial Intelligence
How Static Code Analysis Taught Me About Change Management
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis.
The Cloud
The Four Budget Domains of Enterprise IoT Projects
IoT is rapidly transforming manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and several other industries. The ability to predict asset failure, rapidly diagnosis...
Artificial Intelligence
The Four Quadrants of IoT Revenue Streams
The next decade will bring a society-changing transformation to smart, connected things throughout our personal, professional, and public lives....
Artificial Intelligence
Creating a Twitter ticker with a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is great if you want a dedicated device for a task that you can turn on, get it to do its thing and leave it alone.
The Cloud
Origin Protection with AWS WAF & Shield
Amazon has been steadily improving their CloudFront CDN offering with WAF (Web Application Firewall) capabilities. This is a great feature, however...
Agile
Top 5 Ways Executives Destroy Agile Companies
A few months ago, a senior executive of a large company asked me, “With our Agile transformation, how am I going to screw it up?” The question shook...
Culture
How RFP Software Helps Metal Toad Be More Effective
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of our vendor partners, RFPIO, to chat about RFP response.
Artificial Intelligence
How Much Does a Website Cost? 3 of 3: Maintenance
A good framework for most people to help understand these costs is to look at buying a website like buying a house. After you've bought it you still...
Artificial Intelligence
How Much Does a Website Cost? 1 of 3: Initial Purchase
"How much does a website cost?" These are six words — when spoken in sequence — that most web developers dread.
Artificial Intelligence
History of Computer Girls, Part 2: Margaret!
I've been going around town giving a talk on the history of women in computers. During my research, I came across so very many women I’d never heard...
Artificial Intelligence
Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS
Fun fact: The creator of BackstopJS has referenced this blog post as the recommended tutorial for BackstopJS v2!
Agile
Evolving With Our Clients: The Great Scrumban Experiment
Identifying the need for change In early 2016, Metal Toad fully adopted Agile Scrum methodology.
Artificial Intelligence
Best Practices For a Secure Cloud Part 1
Whether you’re running on premise datacenter, using a private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosting platform, security is extremely...
Drupal
Anatomy of a Drupalgeddon attack
Before working at Metal Toad, I saw an email from Acquia. A strange email. It went something like this:
Education
The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.