This Week I Learned - Week #31 2020

This Week I Learned - 

* Windows Server container support in the Azure Kubernetes Service makes it possible to:

- Lift and shift Windows applications to run on AKS

- Seamlessly manage Windows and Linux applications through a single unified API

- Mix Windows and Linux applications in the same Kubernetes cluster – with consistent monitoring experience and deployment pipelines

* Helm Charts helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. The latest version of Helm is maintained by the CNCF – in collaboration with Microsoft, Google, Bitnami and the Helm contributor community.

* Azure disk encryption (ADE) that leverages the BitLocker feature of Windows and the DM-Crypt feature of Linux to encrypt Managed Disks with customer managed keys within the guest virtual machine

* Temporary disks are not managed disks and are not encrypted by SSE 

* Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) runs the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. There are over 90 Certified Kubernetes offerings from most of the world’s leading enterprise software vendors and cloud computing providers.

* Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster can be  deployed across multiple availability zones but the compute nodes must originate in the same Azure region. 

* Chaos engineering is the practice of subjecting a system to the real-world failures and dependency disruptions it will face in production. Fault injection is the deliberate introduction of failure into a system in order to validate its robustness and error handling. Fault injection can be used in production, but plan carefully, test first in pre-production, limit the blast radius, and have a failsafe to ensure that an experiment can be ended abruptly if needed. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident is a sobering example of a fault injection drill gone wrong. Be careful to insulate your system from unintended consequences.

* DevOps Diagram Generator from XebiaLabs lets you easily generate a diagram of your DevOps pipeline. Also check their Periodic Table of DevOps Tools and DevOps Glossary

* Generative Pre-trained Transformer or GPT-3 is the third in a series of autocomplete tools designed by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based AI lab, an outfit that was founded with the ambitious (some say delusional) goal of steering the development of artificial general intelligence or AGI: computer programs that possess all the depth, variety, and flexibility of the human mind.

* Franklin Templeton is the 12th largest Asset Manager in India  manage over INR 50,000 Crore of AUM (monthly average AUM as of June 2020). It has 33% of its global workforce based in India.

* Flipkart has at least 22 warehouses across India

* Eighteen of India's 30 unicorns are Chinese-funded. Policybazaar is backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd.

* India's largest salt water lake, Nagaur

*  In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a totalitarian government that controlled thought by controlling language, making certain ideas literally unthinkable. Several words and phrases from Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered popular language. "Newspeak" is a simplified and obfuscatory language designed to make independent thought impossible. "Doublethink" means holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously. The "Thought Police" are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. "Prolefeed" is homogenised, manufactured superficial literature, film and music used to control and indoctrinate the populace through docility. "Big Brother" is a supreme dictator who watches everyone. Orwell may have been the first to use the term "cold war" to refer to the state of tension between powers in the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc that followed World War II

* The movie "A Merry War" (1997) set in 1930's London is based on George Orwell's "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" (1934)

* Writing advice from The Professional Simplifier - Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. Humor writing is a lot like business writing. It needs to be simple. Write short sentences. Avoid putting multiple thoughts in one sentence. 

* A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. In Tamil Nadu and some parts of Kerala and South Karnataka, patronymy is predominant. This is a significant departure from the rest of the country where caste names are mostly employed as surnames. This came into common use during the 1950s and 1960s when the Dravidian movement campaigned against the use of one's caste as part of the name.The celebrated Indian English novelist R. K. Narayan's name at birth was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami, which was shortened at the behest of his writer friend, Graham Greene. Rasipuram, the first name, is a toponym and Krishnaswami Ayyar, the second name, is a patronym. In Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat, a very common convention among the Hindu communities is to have the patronymic as the middle name. First Deputy Prime Minister and first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's full name is Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, where Jhaverbhai is his father's given name. Patronymics in some countries are replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John) - Wikipedia