This Week I Learned - Week #40 2021

This Week I Learned - 

* Dynatrace offers an observability, AIOps, and application security platform for modern, dynamic hybrid, and multicloud environments.  The reinvented Dynatrace platform is built on Azure. Customers will soon have access to the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform directly within the Azure Portal, which means customers can easily implement Dynatrace’s automatic and intelligent observability and application security capabilities for their Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments. 

* Facebook says a "faulty configuration change" was the cause of this week's mass outage that saw Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger wiped offline for over 6 hours. The outage marked the longest stretch of downtime for Facebook since 2008. Facebook employees were unable to access critical work tools during the six-hour outage.

* Written in 1897 by French poet and dramatist, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac is about a man born with a very large and ugly nose, which makes him feel as if he is unlovable.

* The males of cows and buffaloes are now roughly 28% of the total cattle population. Their main purpose is breeding. But cows and buffaloes give milk for seven-eight years of their 15-20 years of life... if the animals are fed properly and looked after well it costs about Rs 70,000 per animal per year. This is why farmers need options to take care of the animals not producing milk...Banning meat is cruel demonetisation... meat-eating is not the key issue for India...the bulk of the 95 million tonnes of beef produced in the world comes from cattle in Latin America, Europe and North America – all produced with extremely high environmental impacts.  Americans on an average eat 122 kg of meat per year per person and Indians 3-5 kg per year per person...the average American consumption of meat is 1.5 times the average protein requirement. - Sunita Narain, Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) & Editor of Down To Earth, 

* According to the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulations, 2011, every pre-packed processed food product sold in the country must be labelled with nutritional information. Such information is particularly crucial because the packaged food industry has been globally indicted for peddling ultra-processed foods that are high in fat, salt or sugar and low in fibre and other essential micronutrients.

* The 969 Movement is a Buddhist nationalist movement opposed to what they see as Islam's expansion in predominantly-Buddhist Myanmar. The three digits of 969 "symbolise the virtues of the Buddha, Buddhist practices and the Buddhist community".

* Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the world. This 7th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple is located in Central Java, Indonesia.

* With 87.5% of its 237.6 million population constituting Muslims, Indonesia has the highest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of Indonesia's Muslim population (99%) are Sunnis. The official motto of Indonesia is “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” which can be translated as “Unity in Diversity”. The term unity and diversity is said to have been originally coined by Bahai Ullah, the founder of Bahai Faith. The national emblem of Indonesia is called Garuda Pancasila. 

* Tata Sons own 51% of Vistara (and Singapore Airlines has to decide whether they are on board with Air India or not) and 84% of AirAsia India. Air India will be sold to the Tata Sons within the next ten weeks for a consideration set at USD 2.4 billion. 

* Pallavaram (originally Pallava Puram) is a residential neighborhood of Chennai, India. Pallavaram is considered to be one of the oldest inhabited places in South India. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic Age.

* Of the deadliest tropical cyclones in the world, 27 originated in India's East Coast. 

* Between 1891 and 2020 only 50 cyclones have formed in September in the Indian subcontinent. They are mainly formed in October and November —  the main cyclone-regenerating months. Since cyclones started getting officially monitored in 1975, only 11 have formed in September: Six in the Bay of Bengal and five in the Arabian Sea. But cyclone ‘Gulaab’ achieved the rare feat of forming over both. - Down to Earth

* The Radha Rani temple in Barsana is dedicated to Radha.

* An unknown independent candidate, Bandaru Nagaraju, had surprised everyone in the Dubbak assembly by-election last year when he finished fourth at the hustings with 3,570 votes. Nagaraju, who did not even campaign, got the votes simply because the symbol allotted to him – a rolling pin or roti maker – looked strikingly similar to the ruling party TRS’ car.

* “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination” - Jimmy Dean