This Week I Learned - Week #38 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Dedicated Host is a new Azure service (in preview) that enables you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers.
* You can use AWS Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated instances to launch Amazon EC2 instances on physical servers that are dedicated for your use. An important difference between a Dedicated Host and a Dedicated instance is that a Dedicated Host gives you additional visibility and control over how instances are placed on a physical server, and you can consistently deploy your instances to the same physical server over time.
* Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, role-based access control, and Azure Resource Manager templates.
* Role-based access control (RBAC) is an authorization system which provides fine-grained access for the management of Azure resources. RBAC can be used to limit access and control permissions on Azure resources for the various teams within your IT operations.
* With the release of the ZRS for Azure Files premium tier, premium tier now offers two sets of durability options to meet your storage needs, zone redundant storage (ZRS) for intra-region high availability and locally-redundant storage (LRS) for lower-cost single region durable storage.
* Microsoft welcomes customers to bring their own distributions of Linux into Azure, but encourages them to use an Endorsed Linux distribution because they are maintained by some of the most well-known Linux vendors in the world.
* Cloud load testing (CLT) functionality in Azure DevOps is deprecated.
* Mypy is an optional static type checker for Python that aims to combine the benefits of dynamic (or "duck") typing and static typing. Mypy combines the expressive power and convenience of Python with a powerful type system and compile-time type checking. Mypy is an open source project, and the core team is employed by Dropbox.
* After Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) which is India's biggest IT employer with a total headcount of over 4 lakh employees, Cognizant has become the second IT company to have 2 lakh employees in India. While TCS is a based in India, Cognizant is a US-based firm with most of its operations taking place in Bengaluru - India Today
* Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are distinct disorders with unique characteristics, but they share similarities in social dysfunction. Symptoms of ASD can be seen from very early in life, while the onset of schizophrenia typically occurs in young adulthood.
* During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. In 1957, a stray mutt named Laika became the first animal ever to orbit the Earth. Mere hours after she boldly went where no dog had gone before, Laika made history for a second time by becoming the first animal to die in orbit. Belka (literally, "Squirrel" or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka ("Little Arrow") spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth. They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, two rats, flies and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.
* Mary Temple Grandin is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and autism spokesperson. She is one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism.
* Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT) was banned for the first time in 1972 by the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). In August 2018, India banned 18 pesticides. However, the country has yet to enforce a complete ban on DDT.
* Telugu is mainly spoken in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They have a combined population of 84 million people. It's the fourth most spoken language in India, according to the 2011 census. Last year there were more than 400,000 Telugu speakers in the US - nearly double the number in 2010. A lot of this can be attributed to the links forged between the city of Hyderabad and the US engineering and technology industries. Both Telugu-speaking states together now have more than 800 engineering colleges - BBC
* The cash strapped TSRTC may not have funds to offer its commuters a real-time bus tracking service or a sophisticated feedback mechanism just yet, however, they have found a new hack to reach out to the commuters. In the Kukatpally regional level of RTC, the top officials are managing Whatsapp groups like ‘Commuters of 216W’ and ‘195 bus group’ with techies and other IT employees, to provide real-time updates and clarify queries about their services - New Indian Express
* Envelope-making machines cost anywhere between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 11 lakh.
* The instrument of accession for Kashmir was identical, down to its last letter, to that signed by every other princely state. In other cases, princely states went on to sign documents of merger; Kashmir was, however, to traverse a different course, involving Article 370 and a constituent assembly of its own.
* Azure Dedicated Host is a new Azure service (in preview) that enables you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers.
* You can use AWS Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated instances to launch Amazon EC2 instances on physical servers that are dedicated for your use. An important difference between a Dedicated Host and a Dedicated instance is that a Dedicated Host gives you additional visibility and control over how instances are placed on a physical server, and you can consistently deploy your instances to the same physical server over time.
* Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, role-based access control, and Azure Resource Manager templates.
* Role-based access control (RBAC) is an authorization system which provides fine-grained access for the management of Azure resources. RBAC can be used to limit access and control permissions on Azure resources for the various teams within your IT operations.
* With the release of the ZRS for Azure Files premium tier, premium tier now offers two sets of durability options to meet your storage needs, zone redundant storage (ZRS) for intra-region high availability and locally-redundant storage (LRS) for lower-cost single region durable storage.
* Microsoft welcomes customers to bring their own distributions of Linux into Azure, but encourages them to use an Endorsed Linux distribution because they are maintained by some of the most well-known Linux vendors in the world.
* Cloud load testing (CLT) functionality in Azure DevOps is deprecated.
* Mypy is an optional static type checker for Python that aims to combine the benefits of dynamic (or "duck") typing and static typing. Mypy combines the expressive power and convenience of Python with a powerful type system and compile-time type checking. Mypy is an open source project, and the core team is employed by Dropbox.
* After Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) which is India's biggest IT employer with a total headcount of over 4 lakh employees, Cognizant has become the second IT company to have 2 lakh employees in India. While TCS is a based in India, Cognizant is a US-based firm with most of its operations taking place in Bengaluru - India Today
* Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are distinct disorders with unique characteristics, but they share similarities in social dysfunction. Symptoms of ASD can be seen from very early in life, while the onset of schizophrenia typically occurs in young adulthood.
* During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. In 1957, a stray mutt named Laika became the first animal ever to orbit the Earth. Mere hours after she boldly went where no dog had gone before, Laika made history for a second time by becoming the first animal to die in orbit. Belka (literally, "Squirrel" or alternatively "Whitey") and Strelka ("Little Arrow") spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth. They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, two rats, flies and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.
* Mary Temple Grandin is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and autism spokesperson. She is one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to document the insights she gained from her personal experience of autism.
* Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT) was banned for the first time in 1972 by the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). In August 2018, India banned 18 pesticides. However, the country has yet to enforce a complete ban on DDT.
* Telugu is mainly spoken in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They have a combined population of 84 million people. It's the fourth most spoken language in India, according to the 2011 census. Last year there were more than 400,000 Telugu speakers in the US - nearly double the number in 2010. A lot of this can be attributed to the links forged between the city of Hyderabad and the US engineering and technology industries. Both Telugu-speaking states together now have more than 800 engineering colleges - BBC
* The cash strapped TSRTC may not have funds to offer its commuters a real-time bus tracking service or a sophisticated feedback mechanism just yet, however, they have found a new hack to reach out to the commuters. In the Kukatpally regional level of RTC, the top officials are managing Whatsapp groups like ‘Commuters of 216W’ and ‘195 bus group’ with techies and other IT employees, to provide real-time updates and clarify queries about their services - New Indian Express
* Envelope-making machines cost anywhere between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 11 lakh.
* The instrument of accession for Kashmir was identical, down to its last letter, to that signed by every other princely state. In other cases, princely states went on to sign documents of merger; Kashmir was, however, to traverse a different course, involving Article 370 and a constituent assembly of its own.
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