Despite a history with Linux that reaches back more than 25 years, Windows is my main desktop operating system – partly because having been in corporate environments where I was force to use it, partly because […]
Cloud Computing
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So far, all my data processing pipelines required manual intervention or were tied together with batch/shell scripts. In most cases, I had to copy batch scripts to the folder where they had to process data, and […]
Virtualisation and Containerisation are an important part of today’s computing landscape. Containers offer several benefits compared to software running directly on an operating system: They are isolated environments, helping with issues like security and dependencies. Running […]
Google offers a free trial of its Cloud Platform, worth US$ 300 over a 90-day period, with an additional US$ 100 if you provide a company e-mail address. After spending some time with Azure, I decided […]
Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing service. Like its competitors from Google and Amazon, it offers many different services – storage, databases, machine learning, virtual machines, and others. Some of the services are for free, others can […]