Author Archives: Petri Kiviniemi

Hello, dear readers! If you remember from my older blog posts, I went through how I was developing an app with a group of other students. In this blog, I’ll try to do some reflecting on the app’s planning process and talk about what kind of experience it has been for me.  As I mentioned in the other blog post, our application’s main goal is to help people find events near them. The idea might sound simple, but the design process is quite complicated. Trying to make the application user-friendly requires good design in both front-end and back-end of the application’s architecture. Obviously the user-interface must be easy to use, but if the goal is to fetch and display information quickly, the back-end needs to have things such as efficient algorithms and optimized dataflow.  My role in the planning process was to handle some of the more technical parts, because that’s where my expertise lays. Like in every other application’s planning process, everything seems to be clear before the development stage. However, it’s almost never smooth sailing and instead many problems arise after first iterations of the product. Tho we never got that far, we started facing issues such as how to fetch the events data in real time and how we’re going to handle the application’s scalability once the user count grows. Obviously more traffic in our end means more users fetching the data from the servers. Those are complicated issues that need more expertise than what most of the freshman students have.   All the problems aside, it was a great learning experience. As I said earlier, we never really got out of the planning stage, but I still got some insight on what kind of things you need to take in account in the planning process, such as how to design API’s and how to implement a database for the application.  Thank you for reading this “update” blog and I hope you have a wonderful day!  

This blog post is about a book that I read for my English course assignment. Unfortunately I only had time to read the first chapter from the book before the deadlines hit me, but I found the book interesting and will probably try to finish it. The book was called “The Pragmatic Programmer: From JourneymanContinue reading “A book review”

Hello, dear readers! This week I’m writing about a project that I’m currently developing with a group of other students. The project is a mobile application that’s going to help people find sports events near them. We already have planned all the features the application is going to have, but we still need to figureContinue reading “A technical blog”

Welcome to my blog! I’m Petri, a 21-year-old Finnish student and I’m currently studying at University of Oulu. I’m really passionate about software engineering, coding in general and other computer related stuff, which has led me to study information processing science. At a young age, I was introduced to computers by few of my relativesContinue reading “My First Blog Post”