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Hugo vs Wordpress - Performance, price and plugins
I moved my website from Wordpress to Hugo on August 2022. Now it is time to present some performance benchmarks between Wordpress and Hugo.
My website has been renewed!
The website migration of mikaelahonen.com has completed! Here is the background why I migrated my Wordpress site to Hugo framework that generates static websites.
Around Iceland in 9 days - Terrain from another planet
We had 9 days to experience Iceland. This proved to be a minimum time span to go around the whole island in order to have enough time to enjoy the beautiful nature.
Credit card not working at Iceland N1 gas stations
You can buy a prepaid N1 card from the cashier of the gas station. This blog is not sponsored. Just helping other tourists in Icealand that have credit card issues at N1 stations.
Running Flask frontend and backend in Kubernetes
Kubernetes has been everywhere lately. Especially in the context of MLOps to manage the plethora of different tasks such as training, serving and registering the models.
An undocumented product_id parameter in Pipedrive API to attach products to deals
I found a “bug” in the Pipedrive API documentation while exploring a customer case together with Pipedrive partner SaaShop .
My Pipedrive partner SaaShop nominated as the EMEA Partner of 2021
Pipedrive has nominated SaaShop as the EMEA Partner of the year for 2021. My company launched Pipedrive co-operation with SaaShop just recently.
My Pipedrive business has been aquired by saashop.com
My part-time company Yet Another Data Agency has signed a contract with Finnish SaaShop to move all my existing Pipedrive customers under their business.
Amount of data is exploding - Will the data centers be the next environmental evil
This article in a Finnish magazine is the first significant one that I have noticed about the environmental impacts of data centers and IT solutions.
Free data science workspaces
I have written multiple blog posts about machine learning (ML) engineering and machine learning platforms. Those systems are usually target to productionize ML solutions, are somewhat big investments and focus on managing the whole ML lifecycle.
Comparison of machine learning platforms in major clouds
This blog post compares machine learning platforms from major cloud providers Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Also Databricks platform has been included.
What is a machine learning platform?
Machine learning is going towards the direction where data scientist does the creative work and ML platform takes care of unpleasant process management.
Machine learning in predictive maintenance
Predictive maintenance aims to repair the equipment before the failure actually happens. Scheduled maintenances minimize the production downtime especially in industrial companies.
Faking your geographical location to a web service - A hobby project
I wrote to my previous employer’s blog about an experiment where I tried to fake my geographical location to a web service.
Difference between data scientist and data engineer roles
Working the past few years in both data science and data engineering projects, I have gained pretty good understanding to answer that question.
DataCamp - Learn data science online
DataCamp is an online learning platform for data science. The data science course catalog contains wide selection of Python, R, SQL and Excel videos and assignments.
Databox for enterprise reporting - Review and demo
Databox is browser application to create reports from multiple data sources. Sometimes browser apps are referred as SaaS or Software as a Service.
PySpark execution logic and code optimization
On last fall I wrote about the PySpark framework at my previous employer’s blog. As the name indicates, the topic is extremely technical.
Pipedrive Essential vs Advanced - Comparison of features and pricing on 2020
The CRM company Pipedrive renewed its pricing model during the summer 2019. Now we will go through how to make the choice between Pipedrive Essential and Advanced plans.
Clustering data using SQL - An example with industrial IoT data
Clustering time series data with SQL. The purpose of this experiment was to prove that doing data science doesn’t always require fancy tools.
Hiking in Banff and Jasper national parks - Road trip in Alberta, Canada
Road trip to Banff and Jasper national parks at the skirts of Rocky Mountains goes definitely at the top among all places I have visited.
Spark + Python tutorial for data developers
Go to Spark + Python tutorial in AWS Glue in Solita’s data blog. Spark and parallel computing A shop cashier can only serve a limited amount of customers at a given time.
Introduction to AWS Glue for big data ETL
Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform consists of many individual services. Each of them solves a single well defined problem.
Excel Power Map - Spatial data visualization as a time series
Excel Power Map is designed to visualize spatial data. The tool is also known as Excel 3D Map. Watch my Power Map demo video from Solita’s blog here .
Finnish stemming and lemmatization in python
I wrote to Solita’s Data blog about text analytics with the headline Finnish stemming and lemmatization in python. Read the writing here .