This Week I Learned - Week #36 2020

This Week I Learned - 

* Azure Analysis Services is built on the analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.  SQL Server Analysis Services, SSAS, is an online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining tool in Microsoft SQL Server. 

* Tags are metadata elements attached to resources. Tags consist of pairs of key/value strings. The values you include in these pairs is up to you, but the application of a consistent set of global tags, as part of a comprehensive naming and tagging policy, is a critical part of an overall governance policy.

* Use the Azure Well-Architected Framework Cost Optimization checklist when designing a cost-effective workload.

* High Scale VMs that leverage Azure Premium Storage have a multi-tier caching technology called BlobCache. BlobCache uses a combination of the host RAM and local SSD for caching. This cache is available for the Premium Storage persistent disks and the VM local disks.

* Objects in the cool tier on GPv2 accounts have a minimum retention duration of 30 days. Blob storage accounts don't have a minimum retention duration for the cool tier.

* Archive Storage currently supports 2 rehydrate priorities, High and Standard, that offers different retrieval latencies

* Bottlerocket is a new open source Linux distribution from AWS that is built to run containers. Bottlerocket is designed to improve security and operations of your containerized infrastructure. 

* 20+ ways to migrate your Oracle Database to Oracle Cloud

* The Sumi Baptist Church in Zunheboto town of Nagaland is said to be the largest church in Asia, standing at a height of 203 ft.  

* In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writer/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—Stan Lee co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch and Ant-Man.  Stan Lee retired from Marvel in the 1990s but continued his independent creative ventures into his 90s, until his death in 2018. Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee (a play on his first name, "Stanley"). Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that because of the low social status of comic books, he was so embarrassed that he used a pen name so that nobody would associate his real name with comics when he some day wrote the Great American Novel.

* “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” - Abraham Lincoln

* "If you're going through hell, keep going." -Winston Churchill