This Week I Learned - Week #19 2019

This Week I Learned -

* Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a self-service deployment of fully managed OpenShift clusters. Run your apps on Red Hat’s OpenShift security hardened Kubernetes platform built on Azure infrastructure. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers industry-leading SLA of 99.9% availability.

* Azure API Management simplifies publishing of APIs as well as their consumption by clients. It allows for abstraction of APIs from their implementation. APIs are governed through policies, managed from a unified plane, optimized through caching, and published for frictionless consumption through a developer portal.

Comicgen is a library built with JavaScript to create comics.

* Pass certification exam AI-100 to become a Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

* The second edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook [PDF] is free to download

* Satya Nadella, had been recruited from Sun Microsystems Inc. in 1992, in part because his team’s manager wanted an employee who “gets shit done” and “doesn’t piss off other people.Under Nadella, Microsoft cut funding to Windows and built an enormous cloud computing business—with about $34 billion in revenue (includes Office) over the past year. To refocus entirely on the cloud, Nadella initiated a series of major reorganizations, culminating in last year’s utterly shocking (to longtime Microsoft employees, anyway) termination of the entire Windows division, which he split into Azure and Office teams....Even today, Windows is a $20 billion-a-year business - Bloomberg

A career tech employee at Google could make as much as $10,674,690.

* Bengaluru registered the most number of cybercrime cases in 2018. The country’s technology capital saw a whopping 5,035 FIRs registered at the lone cybercrime police station in the city.

* ‘Hidden Files’ is a show on 93.5 RED FM anchored by cyber forensics and ethical hacking expert, Amit Dubey in an audiobook format.

* Amazon Music has a new Sing-A-Long feature
* Google Search in India can help in finding public toilets and meanings of English words along with their pronunciation in Hindi
Powered by DataKart which relies on brand owners directly uploading their product information, the Smart Consumer mobile app gives Indian consumers access to following product information -
• Product/Commodity Name
• Name & Address of Manufacturer/Packer/Importer
• Month & Year of Manufacture/Pack/Import
• MRP
• Net Content
• FSSAI license number and its validity
• Consumer care details (phone & email) for lodging grievances/feedback

* EAN-13 barcode numbers are 13 digits long. They are the most common type of barcode for retail products in India (as well as worldwide). In the USA, the 12-digit UPC code is preferred.

* Top retailers and e-tailers in India, including Amazon, Flipkart, Reliance Retail, Big Basket and the Future Group have come together to work on standardising representation of product data across various offline and online retail platforms for consistency and uniformity.  The group has been formed under the aegis of GS1 India, a standards organisation set up in the country by the ministry of commerce & industry and other apex trade bodies - The Times of India

In 1947, India had a substantial Muslim population...then around 35 million, now more than 172 million. India’s Muslims..now make up some 14% of the population

India has been ruled primarily by one party–the Congress, the party of Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru–for 54 of the 67 years that the country had been free.

* 31.7% (401) candidates contesting for Parliament elections are Crorepati and 16.8% (213) have criminal cases against them

According to Philips, an estimated 15 million-20 million of the total Indian population suffers from asthma

* The state of Odisha has around 46 million people, about the population of Spain, but many times poorer. The average income is less than $5 a day.

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