This Week I Learned - Week #223

This Week I Learned -

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports the disaster recovery and migration of on-premises virtual machines and physical servers with disk sizes of up to 4095 GB to Azure.

* The attraction of Azure Functions is the cost effectiveness and scalability of serverless computing. Cost is based on execution time and memory usage for each function invocation. An Azure Function definition can be written in a variety of languages – C#, F#, JavaScript, Bash, Powershell, and more. There is no distinction between compiled languages, interpreted languages, and languages typically associated with a terminal window. One criticism of Azure functions, and PaaS solutions in general, is vendor lock-in.

The new Dv3 and Ev3 (high memory D sizes:D11-D14) sizes are also some of the first VM’s to be running on Windows Server 2016 hosts.

Pakistan sans Sharif - The “warm and soft” Calibri was designed by Lucas De Groot in 2004 reached people on January 30, 2007 with the launch of Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. The Calibri started its journey by replacing Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and also replaced Arial as the default in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and WordPad. Pakistan is staring at the fall of Nawaz Sharif government due to a popular font – Calibri. It has been found that Maryam misled the Pakistan Supreme Court with fake documents in the ongoing Panamagate corruption case against her family. Maryam sent to the SC-appointed Joint Investigative Team (JIT) documents dated before January 31, 2007 and typed in Calibri font. But Calibri was not commercially available before 31st January 2007.

* Wish all Azure services consistently had their use cases with this kind of URL - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/use-cases/

* While it might concern you that avocados are high in fat, you may be relieved to hear that it's a nutritious kind of fat, monounsaturated fats! These fats, which promote lower blood cholesterol levels, assist with blood sugar maintenance (especially for people with type-II diabetes), and contain vitamin E — a crucial antioxidant that supports a robust immune system whilst simultaneously protecting your vision. Avocados contain no cholesterol — no plant foods do. They do, however, help to lower blood cholesterol levels as they are packed with high-density lipoproteins (HDL), which help lower the amount of low-density lipoproteins (LDL), in the bloodstream. Given that avocados contain high amounts of HDL, it’s among many foods that contribute to a healthy cholesterol ratio. Avocados are high in beta-carotene, folate (a B vitamin), and potassium (ounce for ounce, avocados have 60 percent more potassium than bananas) - Go Ask Alice! 

* Worldwide, deltas are home to an estimated 500 million people - National Geographic

* India spends 1.6% of GDP on defence expenditure. Russia, US, China, Pakistan spend 5.4, 3.3, 2, 3.6 percent respectively.

* Markets are creatures of euphoria & despair and rarely adjust smoothly. The long term outlook for the West is sluggish. China which became the growth star during 2003-2008 with 12-14% growth is now down to 6.5% - Swaminomics

* Tomatoes account for 22% of b consumption in the US. Retail price of tomatoes in US has g between a low of $1.21 & $2.47 per pound over the last 20 years unlike the Rs1 to 100 variation in India as India is notoriously shy of eating frozen and canned goods. Nasik and Molar are the biggest tomato-growing areas - Times of India

* Movies & TV Shows, Music are among Items That Can't Be Returned back to Amazon India.

* "..I realized that in a war there were no bystanders. There was no neutrality" - Shah Faesal, first Kashmiri to to the Civil Service exam in 2009.

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