How Static Code Analysis Taught Me About Change Management…
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis. I worked with one of our mobile engineers to research various tools and create a decision matrix for…
By Angela Riggs, QA Engineer
May 21, 2018
Machine learning is like a garage sale
Machine learning is a field of computer science where mathematical systems “learn” from massive data to adjust their internal models using linear algebra and statistics. It is not a new discipline;…
By Meghane Hardin, Software Engineer
May 21, 2018
Google IO 2018: Android has a Jetpack
One of the biggest announcements for Android™ developers from Google IO 2018 was the announcement of Android Jetpack. Android Jetpack is a collection of libraries and guidelines for developing…
By James Simshaw, Senior Software Engineer
May 11, 2018
Google IO 2018: Android Things 1.0
We’re just starting the week of Google IO 2018 and already there’s a major announcement, before the event’s official start. Android Things has been moved out of beta is now at version 1.0.
The…
By James Simshaw, Senior Software Engineer
May 7, 2018
To PMP or Not to PMP?
I'm often asked for career path advice by up-and-coming professionals in the project management space. Though there are a lot of great topics to discuss around this career path, inevitably, one…
By Hayli Hay, Director of Client Services
May 1, 2018
What is Culture?
At our company we are known for having a great culture. You can feel it when you walk in: people are at ease, they obviously enjoy what they do and the people they work with. But what drives a…
By Joaquin Lippincott, CEO
April 25, 2018
DevOps QA: The Many Hats of a Quality Assurance Engineer
Note: This is the second post in a series about the different roles I end up carrying out as a Quality Assurance Engineer. You can check out the first post here, where I talk about wearing my Tester…
By Angela Riggs, QA Engineer
April 6, 2018
Drupal 8: Consumption of a Third-Party API
For a recent project, we were tasked to consume the client's internal data from a custom API. Now, this scenario was lucky for us, the API provides a total item count of about 5000, but when queried…
By Marcus Bernal, Software Engineer
April 5, 2018
The Many Hats of Quality Assurance Engineers: Tester
Quality Assurance Engineer is a broad term that can cover a wide variety of roles and responsibilities. It can refer to a more specialized role, like Automation Engineer or Technical Support. It…
By Angela Riggs, QA Engineer
April 5, 2018
Discovery is Like Onboarding
I recently started working at Metal Toad. Metal Toad has one of the best onboarding processes I have ever experienced — thorough documentation, there are more people happy to help me than I can…
By Paul Inman, Engineering Manager
March 15, 2018
Programmatically Importing Drupal 8 Field Configurations
Sometimes during development, a chicken and egg situation happens when business logic intersects with Drupal's mechanisms. For instance, a custom module, client_business_logic, is built to handle…
By Marcus Bernal, Software Engineer
March 13, 2018
Android P and Wi-Fi RTT
Recently, Google launched the first developer preview build of Android™ P. With this, several new features were announced, including two that caught my attention. Those being Neural Networks 1.1…
By James Simshaw, Senior Software Engineer
March 9, 2018
From Senior Engineer to Mature Engineer
When I was fresh out of college with a Computer Science degree, I had a culture-fueled fantasy of what it was to grow into a senior software engineer. Like the mythical 10x programmers, I dreamed of…
By Jon Duell, Engineering Manager
February 23, 2018
The Marriage Retrospective
In popular culture and societal norms there is little space within romantic relationships to air your grievances about your partner. Or, if you do have a “safe” space to share things with your…
By Matt Thogerson, Product Manager
February 21, 2018
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 bottlenecks, and invent new revenue streams are…
By Tony Rost, Chief Technology Officer
January 28, 2018