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
Mean Time Between Loss of Sleep
“MTBLS”: I first encountered this phrase on a New Relic blog. It's a half-joking reference to a concept used by reliability engineers, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). I was intrigued though, and…
By Dylan Tack, Principal Engineer
January 26, 2018
Docker Containers & Clustering/Orchestration
The Big Picture
The aim of this blog post isn’t to get into the nitty gritty how to build and run a containerized app on your favorite cloud provider with a specific clustering technology. Rather,…
By Rich Staats, Senior Cloud Engineer
January 20, 2018
How to Integrate GitHub PRs with Bamboo CI
Bamboo / GitHub integration isn't perfect – perhaps because Atlassian wants to steer you towards Bitbucket (their GitHub competitor). Out of the box, there are several headaches. Below, I'll cover…
By Dylan Tack, Principal Engineer
January 18, 2018
Grokking Bamboo CI/CD, for beginners
We are heavy users of Bamboo for Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI / CD). It's extremely flexible, integrates well with Jira, and elastic build agents make the most of AWS EC2 (…
By Dylan Tack, Principal Engineer
January 18, 2018
My daily use of the Five Levels of Leadership
Over a year ago, I read John Maxwell’s “The Five Levels of Leadership”. Since then, I’ve grown increasingly reliant on it’s simple model. For those of you who are unfamiliar, it goes like this:…
By Tony Rost, Chief Technology Officer
January 16, 2018
Want to get your product to market faster? Hire a Scrum Ma…
In the practice of Agile Project Management, it has long been assumed that a Scrum Master (also referred to at Metal Toad as Agile Project Manager) is an integral member of any successful Scrum team…
By Ori Applebaum, Lead Project Manager
January 15, 2018
Spatial analysis with PostgreSQL and OpenStreetMap
I've always been a map geek, dating back to the 1980s when I would take a road atlas and some tracing paper and draw in my own road network. And one of my favorite games is to take an old map or…
By Keith Dechant, Software Architect
January 8, 2018
Resolution: Talk to Users in 2018
It’s the end of the year and you’re thinking:
“I did a pretty good job this year. I launched several new high-profile initiatives. Thousands more customers are using the application. I didn’t break…
By Lilie Fine, Senior Product Manager
December 27, 2017
The Four Quadrants of IoT Revenue Streams
The next decade will bring a society-changing transformation to smart, connected things in our personal, professional, and public lives. Everything about this change is big: the security risks are…
By Tony Rost, Chief Technology Officer
December 23, 2017
How wasted inventory shows up in software development
Inventory is the worst bank account you’ll ever own. Every item in your inventory is worth cash. At the Bank of Wasted Inventory, your cash has high storage costs; needs staff to track it; can’t be…
By Tony Rost, Chief Technology Officer
December 16, 2017
The 3 Paths for Digital Transformation
There's a lot of talk about digital transformation these days. I think undoubtably this movement - transforming as many processes from analog to digital - is going to be the heart of value for…
By Joaquin Lippincott, CEO
December 12, 2017