This Week I Learned - Week #6 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud to offer native disaster recovery (DR) solution for applications running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs).
* With Google Cloud Endpoints, a truly distributed API gateway, you can develop, deploy, protect, monitor and manage APIs on any Google Cloud backend. Gain insight into your users and usage with Stackdriver Monitoring, Trace (to dive into performance), Logging (to review logs) and Google BigQuery (for analysis)
* Apigee API Platform offers full lifecycle API management for hybrid and multi-cloud worlds for Enterprise customers
* "Devops is about finding ways to adapt and innovate social structure, culture, and technology together in order to work more effectively" - Effective DevOps [PDF]
* In the free ebook "Thinking Architecturally", solution architect Nathaniel Schutta guides tech leads, senior developers, junior developers, and practicing architects through the process of appraising promising new technologies.
* Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - January 2019 has many useful insights
* Rubber tires are not enough to keep you safe from a lightning storm. It is a widespread myth that the reason vehicles provide protection from lightning is due to the tires. In actuality, lightning flows around the outside of a car, and the majority of the current flows from the car's metal cage into the ground below. In essence, a car acts like a mobile Faraday cage. However, not all vehicles are created equal anymore. Convertibles do not have metal roofs, which compromises the Faraday cage affect. In addition, some vehicles are manufactured out of non-metal parts, which impedes electricity's ability to flow through the car. The Faraday cage is named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented it in 1836. An electrical field outside the cage causes electric charges in the cage's conducting material to move around and cancel the field's effect inside the cage.
* The title of the book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping derives from the author Sapolsky's idea that for animals such as zebras, stress is generally episodic (e.g., running away from a lion), while for humans, stress is often chronic (e.g., worrying about losing your job). Therefore, many wild animals are less susceptible than humans to chronic stress-related disorders such as ulcers, hypertension, decreased neurogenesis and increased hippocampal neuronal atrophy.
* Today of course Leonardo is most famous for paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. But in his mind, Leonardo was not primarily a painter. He thought of himself as an engineer first. In a letter to the ruler of Milan listing his strengths, sent in the early 1480s, Leonardo mentioned 10 different skills—designing bridges, tunnels, chariots, and catapults, for example—before adding at the end that he could also paint. 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death - Time
* India abolished the Jury system in 1960's. According to lawyer Tejasvita Apte this is reasonable as "the prosecution has to prove the guilt of the Accused not before a judge, who has experience with criminal law, but before common men (aka Jury) who have no background of law."
* Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud to offer native disaster recovery (DR) solution for applications running on IaaS virtual machines (VMs).
* Apigee API Platform offers full lifecycle API management for hybrid and multi-cloud worlds for Enterprise customers
* "Devops is about finding ways to adapt and innovate social structure, culture, and technology together in order to work more effectively" - Effective DevOps [PDF]
* In the free ebook "Thinking Architecturally", solution architect Nathaniel Schutta guides tech leads, senior developers, junior developers, and practicing architects through the process of appraising promising new technologies.
* Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - January 2019 has many useful insights
* Rubber tires are not enough to keep you safe from a lightning storm. It is a widespread myth that the reason vehicles provide protection from lightning is due to the tires. In actuality, lightning flows around the outside of a car, and the majority of the current flows from the car's metal cage into the ground below. In essence, a car acts like a mobile Faraday cage. However, not all vehicles are created equal anymore. Convertibles do not have metal roofs, which compromises the Faraday cage affect. In addition, some vehicles are manufactured out of non-metal parts, which impedes electricity's ability to flow through the car. The Faraday cage is named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented it in 1836. An electrical field outside the cage causes electric charges in the cage's conducting material to move around and cancel the field's effect inside the cage.
* The title of the book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping derives from the author Sapolsky's idea that for animals such as zebras, stress is generally episodic (e.g., running away from a lion), while for humans, stress is often chronic (e.g., worrying about losing your job). Therefore, many wild animals are less susceptible than humans to chronic stress-related disorders such as ulcers, hypertension, decreased neurogenesis and increased hippocampal neuronal atrophy.
* Today of course Leonardo is most famous for paintings like the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. But in his mind, Leonardo was not primarily a painter. He thought of himself as an engineer first. In a letter to the ruler of Milan listing his strengths, sent in the early 1480s, Leonardo mentioned 10 different skills—designing bridges, tunnels, chariots, and catapults, for example—before adding at the end that he could also paint. 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death - Time
* India abolished the Jury system in 1960's. According to lawyer Tejasvita Apte this is reasonable as "the prosecution has to prove the guilt of the Accused not before a judge, who has experience with criminal law, but before common men (aka Jury) who have no background of law."
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