This Week I Learned - Week #20 2019

This Week I Learned -

With Microsoft identity platform, you can write code once and reach any user. You can build an app once and have it work across many platforms, or build an app that functions as a client as well as a resource application (API).

There are more Microsoft Azure certification exams now compared to last year

With Azure Boards, you can quickly and easily start tracking user stories, backlog items, task, features, and bugs associated with your project.

AWS has released new stencils.

* Amazon Elastic Load Balancers situated at different application tiers ensure that even if an entire zone goes offline, traffic will be directed to the appropriate one. It’s worth pointing out that the ELBs “live” outside the zones and are therefore not impacted by the failure of any particular one. ELB is one of many AWS services that have a regional scope and can span across zones in a given region. Other services like Route 53 is global in scope, as shown below, and provides services to multiple Regions.

Now, anyone, even with no coding skills, can publish skills created using Alexa Skill Blueprints to the Alexa Skills Store in US and India for customers to discover, use, and review.

* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged cyber-assault - Forbes

* Aerial attacks on oil pipeline deep inside Saudi Arabia suggest significant leap in Houthi drone capabilities - Al Jazeera

* San Francisco’s legislature voted to ban city agencies from using facial-recognition technology. Technology such as facial-recognition cameras and automatic licence-plate readers can gather images constantly and store them indefinitely. They make surveillance cheap and invisible - The Economist

Winners are just people who know when to quitand do it often.

* People with a growth mind-set of interest tend to believe that interests and passions are capable of developing with enough time, effort and investment. When you look to successful people you admire, study them not only for their victories and achievements, but also for how they overcame failures and changed as a result of them. And when you’re pursuing new passions, remember that the process itself and the steps you need to take are just as important as your end goal. Temper your expectations and build failure in to your plan, then learn to recognize and celebrate small milestones along the way - NY Times, Smarter Living

* When you ask others questions, most people actually want to help. By asking a question, we activate in them that spirit of helping. When our co-workers ask us questions, we’re more likely to develop a positive opinion of them because we see that they’re humbly turning to us as someone they perceive as having valuable knowledge

If you’re having lunch with some of your peers, then revealing failure is a great strategy to induce levels of liking by reducing malicious envy

As of now, about 66 per cent of the green cards are given to those with family ties and only 12 per cent are based on skills.

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