This Week I Learned - Week #259

This Week I Learned -

You may only tier your object storage data to hot, cool, or archive in Blob Storage or General Purpose v2 (GPv2) accounts. General Purpose v1 (GPv1) accounts do not support tiering. 

* Microsoft has retired the certification exam 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions on December 31, 2017, and replaced it with Exam 70-535 that covers the new (but related) objective domain.

Cloud Practice Development Playbooks have useful guidance on a range of areas

The fundamental technology for AWS EC2 VMs is xen, while the fundamental technology for GCP GCE VMs is kvm

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing platform originally developed in-house at VMware. It is now owned by Pivotal Software, which is a joint venture of VMware,  EMC, and General Electric. As the leading enterprise PAAS platform, Cloud Foundry enables you to build and operate cloud native applications that run anywhere. It is available as a stand-alone software package which can be deployed on Amazon’s AWS, Azure/Azure Stack, on your own OpenStack server, or through HP’s Helion or VMware’s vSphere

* The GoalKicker.com website has bite-sized chapters on programming topics compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation

Making use of a NeXT computer (from NeXT Inc which Steve Jobs founded after resigning from Apple in 1985), English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN in Switzerland.

* Each new electric vehicle (EV) uses about 10kg (22 lbs) of cobalt. More than half of the world’s reserves and production of the metal are in one dangerously unstable country, the Democratic Republic of Congo - Economist

The children of most Indian politicians study abroad 

4-5​ days is the longest it should take for an article sent through India Post's premium Speed Post service.

GDPRtoons.com attempts to create awareness and facilitate the discussion of GDPR's complexities.

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