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June 26, 2018
Life is short, why URLs long? Yeah, something broke ...
At the end of last year, I wrote as part of a thesis work an energy market simulator modeling the Finnish electricity market. While I moved onward after finishing that work, I’ve been intending to return to the project to fix a few of the nagging TODO items. more »»
January 10, 2018
Energy Simulator A sandbox simulaton of Finland's electricity market
(I have been quiet on this blog for quite a while. I might offer an explanation on that at some point. Although, some of the reasons can be found in this blog post.) more »»
January 30, 2016
Dynamic devtest deployments
While I work less and less on down-to-earth development, there are times when I get a chance to hack something. In this post I’ll describe a devtest deployment system I got a chance to be work on. more »»
January 17, 2016
On Software Development and Layperson's Perceptions Easy Peasy or Fiendishly Hard?
Since I have been in the “software business” for about two decades it is natural that I project my own knowledge on to any software problem I hear. Yet sometimes I get a glimpse of how this whole “software thing” might look to people who have little or no knowledge... more »»

Who am I?

This is a personal blog of Santeri Paavolainen. As is evident in what I write about I have a deep interest in software development and cloud computing. Professionally I work also (probably more) on project management and strategic technology consulting.

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I do independent consulting on cloud computing at both strategic business level (“why and how”) and engineering level (“what and when”). If you are interested in the benefits I can provide for your organization, please do be in touch.

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26 Jun 2018 » Life is short, why URLs long?
10 Jan 2018 » Energy Simulator
30 Jan 2016 » Dynamic devtest deployments
17 Jan 2016 » On Software Development and Layperson's Perceptions
11 Sep 2015 » Wardley maps at the low end
18 Jun 2015 » Watts, watts, watts!
25 Apr 2015 » Custom Termination Policy for Auto Scaling
21 Apr 2015 » Picoservice bruhahaha
14 Feb 2015 » Divine concurrency
31 Jan 2015 » µ²services
06 Jan 2015 » Trans-earth networking protocols
03 Jan 2015 » Year of the Cloud?
23 Dec 2014 » Sauna
20 Sep 2014 » Turingin testi
12 Sep 2014 » What's in your AWS bill?
17 Jul 2014 » Cornucopia machine as a service
23 Jun 2014 » AWS Service Metadata
16 Jun 2014 » "Previous generation instance types"
13 Jun 2014 » Structure and interpretation of AWS service health dashboard messages
25 Mar 2014 » Minimum spot instance prices
20 Mar 2014 » Mechanics of the spot instance market
19 Mar 2014 » Using spot instances
12 Mar 2014 » Spot instances and price behavior
12 Mar 2014 » Series on AWS spot instances
07 Mar 2014 » m1 marching into obsolescence?
06 Mar 2014 » Sockets and concurrency the buggy way
03 Mar 2014 » Experiences in Erlang
13 Jan 2014 » Retiring instance types?
07 Jan 2014 » Replay
18 Dec 2013 » Freezing Travis
11 Dec 2013 » Ember - (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
11 Dec 2013 » Gotcha!
05 Dec 2013 » Idempotent PUT is a fake
04 Dec 2013 » REST MESS
29 Nov 2013 » Working on freezr
03 Nov 2013 » My old flame ... from 17 years past
28 Oct 2013 » Life's easier if you can code
10 Jul 2013 » One viewpoint on cloud computing
08 Jul 2013 » Enter Jekyll (where's Hyde?)
12 Apr 2013 » Can you blog in github?

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