This Week I Learned - Week #26 2021

This Week I Learned - 

* Kubernetes API is commoditized and consistent, but the platform experience isn’t. Your Kubernetes experience isn’t uniform across Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), VMware PKS, Red Hat OpenShift, Minikube, and 130+ other options. As you’re choosing a Kubernetes product to use, pay upfront attention to provisioning, upgrades, scaling/repair, ingress, software deployment, and logging/monitoring. 

* Google Cloud Run is better than FaaS. It hosts containers that respond to web requests or event-based triggers. You can write functions, or, containerize a complete app—Migrate for Anthos makes it easy. Take an existing custom-built app written in any language, or packaged (or no source-code-available) software and run it. You don’t have to decompose your existing API into a series of functions, or break down your web app into a dozen components. Cloud Run uses containers. On one hand, it’s a packaging mechanism, just like a ZIP file for AWS Lambda. On the other, it’s a way to bring apps written in any language, using any libraries, to a modern runtime.

* After you version-enable a S3 bucket, it can never return to an unversioned state. But you can suspend versioning on that bucket. Objects that are stored in your bucket before you set the versioning state have a version ID of null. 

* Amazon S3 monitors access patterns of the objects in S3 Intelligent-Tiering. It moves objects that have not been accessed for 30 consecutive days (not after 30 days) to the infrequent access tier. 

* Notable BITS Alumni

* A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym. In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, who may have originally been given a polynym. Example - Aristotle

* Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch. Rice was the first woman to occupy the post of National Security Advisor. 

* Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition or forced rendition, is the government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another with the purpose of circumventing the former country's laws on interrogation, detention, extradition and/or torture. - Wikipedia

* The Looming Tower is an American television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name. It traces the "rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. 

* The main differences between a CV and a resume are length and layout. A CV, or Curriculum Vitae, translates to course of life in Latin and is an in depth explanation of your achievements. CVs can span two or more pages covering topics like education, accomplishments, awards, publications and work history. CVs should be organized chronologically and the format is fixed. In contrast, a resume is a  concise document, one to two pages which exemplify aspects of your relevant work experience and skills. A resume's goal in contrast is to present the highlight reel of your career and help you stand out from the crowd.

* No person is allowed to receive a sum of Rs. 2,00,000 or more, from a person in a day or in respect of a single transaction or in relation to one event or occasion, in cash or an impermissible mode. Provisions of Section 269ST  of the Income-tax Act shall be applied as all the payments are made in respect of a single event otherwise if the income-tax department comes to know of such hefty cash payments. Unexplained income is taxable at special tax rate of 78%. - Mint

* If an employee’s total contributions to his/her employees’ provident fund (EPF), and voluntary provident fund (VPF) accounts exceeded ₹2.5 lakh in a financial year, then the interest earned on the contributions in excess of the limit will be taxable, and the employee will bear the tax burden. In case there is no contribution by the employer to the EPF account, then interest earned from such accounts will be tax-exempt on deposits up to ₹5 lakh in a financial year.

*  Any profit arising from sale of a capital asset is taxed as capital gains under the income tax laws. Agricultural land situated in rural area is not considered as capital assets under income tax laws. There is difference between an item being exempt income and it not being an income at all. You are required to disclose your exempt income in your ITR but not an item which is not income at all. 

* Ex gratia payments are made as a favour; not compelled by legal right.

* While Southern Indian food centers around rice-based and creamy coconut dishes, Western India is known for its spicy curries and sausages.

Recipe - Curry-Spiced Chickpea Bowl

* “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” - Mark Twain