This Week I Learned - Week #9 2022

This Week I Learned - 

* Availability set is the first HA concept for SAP systems in Azure, that protect an application against unplanned downtime of physical servers and racks inside ONE data center (DC). It also offers planned maintenance downtime minimization. With the help of SAP on Azure PowerShell cmdlets it is possible to migrate SAP HA systems from Availability Set construct to Availability Zones to improve their infrastructure SLA from 99.9% to 99.99% while SAP systems stay online all the time or most of the time.

* NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB (document), Cassandra (wide-column) and Gremlin (graph) are arguably the biggest and most transformative trend in the universe of databases over the past decade. Azure Cosmos DB is a multi-model NoSQL database, supporting all common NoSQL data models through open APIs, that is fully cloud based and offered as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

* The Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool includes 10+ prebuilt reference architectures for common use cases

* All security models involve layers of connected and separated components.

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* Guidance on how to design a Netflix-like video streaming platform 

* Open Connect is the global customized CDN for Netflix that delivers Netflix TV shows and movies to members world-wide.

* Reading Coach will come built into Immersive Reader. Reading fluency is composed of three pillars – reading speed, accuracy, and expression.  With a forthcoming Prosody update, Reading Progress will have the capacity to automatically determine the aspects of prosody, including monotone reading, long pauses, not pausing for a period or comma, voice inflection for question marks or exclamation points, and even the stress of multi-syllable words.  The new updates will also include support for over 100 languages and more actionable insights. 

* Razorpay Payment Pages provides a way with zero coding to accept international and domestic payments with automated payment receipts through a custom-branded online store. Under the standard plan designed for small and medium enterprises, Razorpay charges 2% per transaction.

* Fresher headcount is 14% of the total headcount of both Infosys & TCS. - ET Prime

* About 1 million engineers (of varying quality) graduate every year. The supply far outstrips the demand. In the past two years, TCS has started conducting a National Qualifier Test — an online test for engineering students across the country to hire candidates. It takes roughly four to six years for a fresher to be considered skilled in a particular technology

* The two books Let Us C and Let Us C++ have clocked combined sales of more than 6 million copies. While the first is in its 18th edition, the second has had four. The author of these books & nearly 20 other titles is Yashavant Kanetkar of Nagpur. Learning by making mistakes is Kanetkar’s teaching style. Kanetkar got his first job at a manufacturing company in Delhi after completing his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He found it meaningless, so he decided to finish his education before starting to build his own company. After acquiring his Master’s degree at IIT Kanpur, he went back to Nagpur with a plan to set up a press-tools factory. As he didn’t have the collateral for a loan, a bank manager told him that a new government circular had mandated that banks give priority loans to anyone who wanted to start a computer business. Desperate for a loan, he became a software professional by accident. - ET Prime

* N Chandrasekaran, former CEO at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and now chairman of Tata Sons, joined the Mumbai-headquartered IT services company as a fresher.

* Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky went from popular comedy actor to president after winning a landslide victory in a 2019 election.

* There are roughly 40,000 undergraduate seats in government colleges which offer subsidized medical education. Here, often the fee is below Rs 1 lakh for the entire MBBS course of five years. The remaining 60,000 seats in India are in private colleges and deemed universities. These institutes charge an annual fee of between Rs 18 lakh to Rs 30 lakh. For a five-year course, that works out to a cost between Rs 90 lakh to Rs 1 crore. Over 16,00,000 aspirants compete for 1,00,000 seats  in the hyper-competitive National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET and aspirants need coaching to make the cut. The cost of coaching can go up to a whopping Rs 10 lakh. Other countries benefit when India becomes too costly for medical education. - ET Prime

* In 2021-22, there were 596 medical colleges in the country with a total of 88,120 MBBS seats. In effect, roughly 65,000 seats are available within the affordable fee segment. 

* There are about 33 medical colleges in Ukraine, some of them enjoy the highest accreditation rating by the respective education agencies. In Ukraine there are 28 medical colleges that are recognised as per WHO directory of medical schools. 

* The World Heath Organisation ranks India at 184 out of 191 countries in health spending. Oxfam India’s report for 2020 put India at 155th position with Afghanistan. Both countries allocate less than 4% of their budget to health.

* Prior to the introduction of screening test regulation, which came in 2005, Indian students who completed their MBBS from a Medical University of Ukraine could easily get a job in India as the MBBS degree obtained from a Ukraine University was recognised by Medical Council of India (MCI). This was done as part of a diplomatic arrangement. Medical Council of India (MCI) which is also known as Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (FMGE) is a licensure examination conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) in India twice every year, in June and December. MCI Examination is compulsory for those Indian students who have pursued MBBS from abroad. The Foreign Medical Graduates Examination is conducted for candidates who have earned their medical degrees abroad but wish to practice in India.  According to official result document, out of 17,789 candidates who appeared in FMGE 2020 June session, only 1,697 or 9.94% students have managed to pass.

* The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is estimated to have invested at least ₹ 10,000 crore in top-rated public-sector company bonds including that of Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), some of which have offered rates up to 9 basis points less than similar maturity government bonds - ET

* Star Air is the aviation arm of prominent Indian business conglomerate Sanjay Ghodawat Group

* A startling ₹1,750 crore is lying as an outstanding amount to be collected as penalties for more than six crore traffic challans from all police units across Telangana State. 

* Number of years in which investment will double = 72/Rate of return on investment.

* Years Of Wrath -A Cartoon History: 1931-1945 [PDF] - David Low's cartoons with running text to provide a factual background for pictures that tell their own story.

* R K Laxman chronicles the journey of India in his illustrations with the help of his famous creation – the common man in Brushing Up the Years: A Cartoonist's History of India, 1947 to the Present (2005) 

* “If developers are writing the script for the future, that puts you, the developer, in the front seat of this larger conversation. Every line of code is a decision made by the developer. We are building the future out of those decisions.” ~Joel Spolsky

* When you introduce constraints, you are focused on making the best of the resources you have, instead of figuring out what resources you have, which can feel overwhelming. Constraints breed creativity. - Meor Amer

* "A pandemic can't be treated but only prevented. If we do not prevent, there will be an ocean of people to treat and that's very challenging" - Dr Raja Rao, Superintendent of Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad