This Week I Learned - Week #33 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Dedicated Host (Preview) provides a virtualized environment that’s architected to run Azure VMs, and it gives you control and visibility over the underlying physical server, but it’s not a bare metal as a service offering.
* Choosing the correct authentication method is a crucial first decision in setting up an Azure AD hybrid identity solution. To choose an authentication method, you need to consider the time, existing infrastructure, complexity, and cost of implementing your choice.
* Decision tree for Azure integration services - Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps, Functions, and WebJobs
* These days, the average American’s career includes 15 job changes, according to a 2016 LinkedIn report.
* 13 famous companies that started out as side hustles:
- Apple - Steve Jobs was working at Atari, and Steve Wozniak was an engineer at HP while building the Apple I.
- Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg turned his college passion project into a thriving tech business
- Instagram - its co-founder Kevin Systrom while working as a product manager taught himself how to code during the night and weekends to build Burbn, which was a mobile check-in app, similar to FourSquare but more picture-based. A year later he hired co-founder Mike Krieger and the pair officially launched Instagram
- Spanx - while working her day job going door-to-door trying to sell fax machines, Sara Blakely worked on the nights and weekends to start the woman shape-wear company in 2000. In 2012, Blakely was named the youngest female self-made billionaire, and today, she is worth $1.1 billion.
- Twitter - the idea for the site originated during a hackathon and its creator Jack Dorsey worked on it as a side project at Odeo till it was launched in 2006
- Craigslist - Craig Newmark transitioned to a list server and larger website after the original email newsletter which he sent out to friends while he was working as a programmer became popular & spread by word of mouth. Craigslist expanded to 700 cities and 70 countries all over the world as the website itself remained simple and under-designed.
- WeWork - Adam Neumann & Architect Miguel McKelvey who worked separately in the same building in Brooklyn got together to operate coworking spaces
- Under Armour - As a college football player, Kevin Plank started a side project to develop a shirt that would not soak up the sweat. When he graduated college, his side hustle became a business, known as Under Armour, which operated out of his grandmother's basement.
- Yankee Candle - 16-year-old Mike Kittredge turned his idea of making a candle out of crayons as a gift for his mom into a side hustle, operating out of his parent's garage and basement.
- theSkimm - started a passion project by NBC associate producers, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. It involved sending a curated news list straight to people's email boxes
- OculusVR - started in 2012, after Palmer Luckey dropped out of college and focused on his side project of developing state-of-the-art virtual reality glasses in his garage, full-time.
- Imgur - as a student at Ohio University in 2009, Alan Schaaf built an image uploader in two weeks that would rival PhotoBucket. The side project became the website Imgur in 2011.
- Khan Academy - After his day job at a hedge fund, Sal Khan tutored his cousin through Yahoo Doodle and over the phone in 2004. Gradually he began recording videos of himself teaching lessons and uploaded them to YouTube. It wasn't until 2009 when Khan quit his day job and worked on Khan Academy full time.
* Customer care numbers retrieved through Google Search can be fake. A scamster changed the contact details of an EPFO Provident Fund office in Mumbai on Google. When people contacted on that number, the scamster asked for personal details from the callers and duped several of them - ET
* Soluble fiber helps to reduce cholesterol and glucose levels, and insoluble fiber helps with constipation by increasing fecal bulk.
* Azure Dedicated Host (Preview) provides a virtualized environment that’s architected to run Azure VMs, and it gives you control and visibility over the underlying physical server, but it’s not a bare metal as a service offering.
* Choosing the correct authentication method is a crucial first decision in setting up an Azure AD hybrid identity solution. To choose an authentication method, you need to consider the time, existing infrastructure, complexity, and cost of implementing your choice.
* Decision tree for Azure integration services - Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps, Functions, and WebJobs
* 13 famous companies that started out as side hustles:
- Apple - Steve Jobs was working at Atari, and Steve Wozniak was an engineer at HP while building the Apple I.
- Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg turned his college passion project into a thriving tech business
- Instagram - its co-founder Kevin Systrom while working as a product manager taught himself how to code during the night and weekends to build Burbn, which was a mobile check-in app, similar to FourSquare but more picture-based. A year later he hired co-founder Mike Krieger and the pair officially launched Instagram
- Spanx - while working her day job going door-to-door trying to sell fax machines, Sara Blakely worked on the nights and weekends to start the woman shape-wear company in 2000. In 2012, Blakely was named the youngest female self-made billionaire, and today, she is worth $1.1 billion.
- Twitter - the idea for the site originated during a hackathon and its creator Jack Dorsey worked on it as a side project at Odeo till it was launched in 2006
- Craigslist - Craig Newmark transitioned to a list server and larger website after the original email newsletter which he sent out to friends while he was working as a programmer became popular & spread by word of mouth. Craigslist expanded to 700 cities and 70 countries all over the world as the website itself remained simple and under-designed.
- WeWork - Adam Neumann & Architect Miguel McKelvey who worked separately in the same building in Brooklyn got together to operate coworking spaces
- Under Armour - As a college football player, Kevin Plank started a side project to develop a shirt that would not soak up the sweat. When he graduated college, his side hustle became a business, known as Under Armour, which operated out of his grandmother's basement.
- Yankee Candle - 16-year-old Mike Kittredge turned his idea of making a candle out of crayons as a gift for his mom into a side hustle, operating out of his parent's garage and basement.
- theSkimm - started a passion project by NBC associate producers, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. It involved sending a curated news list straight to people's email boxes
- OculusVR - started in 2012, after Palmer Luckey dropped out of college and focused on his side project of developing state-of-the-art virtual reality glasses in his garage, full-time.
- Imgur - as a student at Ohio University in 2009, Alan Schaaf built an image uploader in two weeks that would rival PhotoBucket. The side project became the website Imgur in 2011.
- Khan Academy - After his day job at a hedge fund, Sal Khan tutored his cousin through Yahoo Doodle and over the phone in 2004. Gradually he began recording videos of himself teaching lessons and uploaded them to YouTube. It wasn't until 2009 when Khan quit his day job and worked on Khan Academy full time.
* Customer care numbers retrieved through Google Search can be fake. A scamster changed the contact details of an EPFO Provident Fund office in Mumbai on Google. When people contacted on that number, the scamster asked for personal details from the callers and duped several of them - ET
* Soluble fiber helps to reduce cholesterol and glucose levels, and insoluble fiber helps with constipation by increasing fecal bulk.
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