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AWS reInvent: what to expect 2021

As an award-winning AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS managed services provider, we are pumped about the 2021 AWS re:Invent

Metal Toad Recognized as Key Partner For New AWS Media & Entertainment Initiative

Metal Toad is proud to be recognized as a key partner for the recently launched AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative. Metal Toad received special recognition for Data Science & Analytics for Media.

Workplace Dress Code

 As I was deciding what to write about in a blog for a software company, I didn’t recall anyone writing one here about fashion or dress code at the workplace, . This can be a pretty controversial topic, so please keep in…

THE NEW HOME OFFICE MODEL

Technology has brougth great benefits to society and organizations such as:

5 Time Management Tips That Work

Time management is a decision-making process with the intention of planning and organizing how you divide the time to be spent on specific activities in order to maximize productively and achieve goals.  

AGILE METHODOLOGY

WHAT WOULD IT BE? The agile methodology has the function of improving the process of developing a product or service. The ultimate goal is to deliver quickly and more frequently, as the customer's needs arise.

Thoughts on 2021 StackOverflow Developer Survey

The StackOverflow Annual Developer Survey measures the developer community on the popularity of software development stacks and gathers demographic information.

The Power of a Personal Retrospective

Metal Toad first introduced the concept of a retrospective to me in 2014. As an agile software company, our teams undertake retrospectives (retros) quite frequently. What is a retrospective, you ask? Atlassian defines them…

5 Reasons Why You Should Write Every Day

When you hear the word “writing,” what image comes to mind? Do you imagine books you can buy on Amazon, or remember that time in high school English class when you had to write a paper on Shakespear? 

Fostering Genuine Connections in a Virtual World

In a pandemic year, everyone is scrambling to keep afloat. We’re restructuring workflows, reorganizing personal goals, and also revisiting how to network.

Artificial Intelligence and the Cyberpunk dream

I was always amazed at the way the media convinced me that Artificial Intelligences would think, behave and act like human beings. That made me look forward to our Cyberpunk future. But at some point, I started to research…

Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Content Distribution

The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content. At the HPA Tech Retreat, the most compelling…