This Week I Learned - Week #280

This Week I Learned -

Chargeback and showback are terms used to describe ways in which technology costs are tracked. Chargebacks are internal charges assigned to various departments. Showback is an analysis of technology usage across the board.

EC2Instances.info offers Amazon EC2 Instance comparison similar to what AzurePrice.net does for Azure VM types. AzurePrice.net offers cost optimization & auditing services

Having end to end monitoring infrastructure in place helps you track :
• Health
• Performance
• Security
• SLA

Forrester prediction for 2018: “Kubernetes will win the war for container orchestration dominance.”

Developing a cloud strategy has been cited as the top issue every year since 2012, according to Gartner.

* Site Reliability Workbook is the hands-on companion to the bestselling Site Reliability Engineering book. The 508 paged ebook from O'Reilly is available for free till Aug 23rd.

* With HA there is, generally, no loss of service whereas, with DR there is usually a slight loss of service while the DR plan is executed and the system is restored. . HA refers to the retaining of the service and DR to the retaining of the data. Both high availability and disaster recovery are important in maintaining business-continuity

* IFTTT and Uber open up a new category of automation magic

* Soul patch - small tuft of facial hair directly below a man's lower lip.

* Polo is a horseback mounted team sport. It is one of the world's oldest known team sports. The current game originated in Manipur, a northeastern state in India, and was propagated by officers of the British military in the mid 19th century - Wikipedia

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