This Week I Learned - Week #192

This Week I Learned -

A Site to Site VPN can be established from Azure to any on-premises network and can even be used with other cloud networks such as AWS Virtual Private Cloud. Please note that you must have a Public IP for your other network's VPN gateway and cannot be behind an NAT.

* With 47 major certifications, Azure has the largest compliance coverage of any cloud provider

Azure now offers a 99.9 percent service-level agreement (SLA) commitment option on single-instance virtual machines with Premium Storage.

When using SQL Server in Azure VM as a data source for Azure Web Apps, keep in mind that Azure Web Apps does not support Azure Virtual Network. In other words, all connections from Azure Web Apps to SQL Server VMs in Azure must go through public end points of virtual machines. This might cause some limitations for high availability and disaster recovery scenarios. For example, the client application on Azure Web Apps connecting to SQL Server VM with database mirroring would not be able to connect to the new primary server as database mirroring requires that you set up Azure Virtual Network between SQL Server host VMs in Azure. Therefore, using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Azure Web Apps is not supported currently. SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups: You can set up AlwaysOn Availability Groups when using Azure Web Apps with SQL Server VMs in Azure. But you need to configure AlwaysOn Availability Group Listener to route the communication to the primary replica via public load‐balanced endpoints

Makerbase is a reference for anyone who's interested in apps and web sites and the people behind them.

Joel Spolsky is the full-time CEO of Stack Overflow, which just hit 300 employees

Geolocator.js is a utility for getting geo-location information, geocoding, address look-ups, distance & durations, timezone information

WikiPal uses info from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage geocoded places to fetch interesting details for a specified location

* As of early December, the six major studios in Hollywood have an 83.4 percent market share of the domestic box office. Disney alone enjoys a staggering 24.2 percent

* Folic acid is actually the synthetic type of vitamin B9 that is often found in fortified foods and dietary supplements. Folate is the naturally occurring form of B9, typically found in foods.

* Map of the Earth showing live information about winds and temperature.

* "Hypocrisy is not my forte" - Jayalalithaa

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