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Google Cloud ML Engineer certification - Training and preparing
I am preparing for Google Cloud Professional Machine Leargning Engineer certification . The certification is mandatory in the project I am working on.
Pirsch - Google Analytics alternative for static website
Setting up anayltics tracking for a web page is simple. Just copy couple of lines of code from the select analytics service and you are good to go.
EmailLabs - EU based service for 24 000 free transactional emails per month
During my website migration it became evident that I would also need a new email service. Previously the email hosting was integrated in the CPanel of my web hotel.
Migration from Wordpress to Hugo
Migrations are in most cases performed poorly. The reason is that companies treat their IT ecosystem as a commodity rather than asset.
Bingo generator - Print bingo papers for wedding and other events
Printing bingo tickets for a wedding, excursion or company party? Go to the bingo generator browser application, with which you can create the desired number of randomly generated bingo tickets.
Hugo SEO
Yoast SEO is addmitedly a nice plugin in Wordpress. I was thinking a lot how to replace it in Hugo. Quickly I learned that SEO is not magic.
Image optimization in Hugo
Text content of all my 300+ blog posts is less than 2 MB in size containing the metadata. An image taken with mobile phone can be 5 MB.
Backend for Hugo website
Hugo framework generates HTML files that load really fast. It does not have. As a drawback the developer needs to be more creative with some essential functionalities such as site search and sending contact forms.
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.