This Week I Learned - Week #23 2022

This Week I Learned -

* Cloud native applications take advantage of containers, serverless technology, microservice based architectures, and API based solutions that enable developers to build and iterate solutions faster.  They are delivered using a highly automated, DevOps-based approach, enabling developers to continually deploy new updates and capabilities to their customers.

* Azure Container Apps is a serverless container-based hosting service that supports event-driven scale. 

* A rolling upgrade is an upgrade of a software version, performed without a noticeable down-time or other disruption of service.

* The Adobe Document Cloud includes Adobe Acrobat, Document APIs, and Acrobat Sign – a leading cloud-based e-signature service used across regulated businesses, governments, and institutions around the world. They adopted a microservices architecture that utilizes Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cache for Redis, and Azure Kubernetes Service to scale their Adobe Document Cloud for their customers. 

* Azure Arc makes it possible to use these managed cloud services anywhere – in Azure, multi-cloud or hybrid environments, and at the edge.

* Azure Spring Cloud is a fully managed service for Spring Boot applications that solves the challenges of running Spring at scale. The capabilities of the service have been expanded since then, and Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now generally available. This new tier adds fully managed VMware Tanzu components running on Azure and advanced VMware Spring Runtime support. FedEx is using Azure Spring Apps to run their Java apps at a massive scale. FedEx’s Global Delivery Prediction Platform, or GDPP, is a Java-based solution running on Azure that dynamically predicts estimated time of arrival for millions of shipments. 

* For dependency visualization Azure Migrate: Server Assessment leverages the power and technology from Log Analytics. The dependency visualization is free for the first 180 days from the day of associating a Log Analytics workspace with the Server Assessment tool. After 180 days, standard Log Analytics charges will apply.  And if you use any other solution within that Log Analytics workspace it is not free, and you’ll incur standard Log Analytics charges. Microsoft's recommendation is to leave the tool gathering the dependency visualization data for at least 30 days as that should capture a good picture of what happens within your environment and show any specific workload spikes.  

* When you start to replicate machines from your own environment up in to Azure you will start to incur charges for Azure Storage, storage transactions and data transfer during replication.  However, the license charges for Azure Migrate: Server Migration tool are waived for the first 180 days. 

* Azure Skills Navigator  - Solution Architect [PDF]

* Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report [PDF]

* Microsoft Office Lens is a great way to capture information from documents, whiteboards, homework assignments, receipts, menus, museum signs, or anything else containing text that you want to import so that it can be read using Immersive Reader.

* Hostile architecture also known as defensive architecture, hostile design, unpleasant design, exclusionary design, and defensive urban design, is an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour. It often targets people who use or rely on public space more than others, such as youth, poor people, and homeless people, by restricting the physical behaviours they can engage in.

* The Mosquito or Mosquito alarm is a machine used to deter loitering by emitting sound at high frequency. In some versions, it is intentionally tuned to be heard primarily by younger people. The maximum potential output sound pressure level is stated by the manufacturer to be 108 decibels (dB), and the manufacturer's product specification furthermore states that the sound can typically be heard by people below 25 years of age. The ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates in most humans with age (a condition known as presbycusis), typically observable by the age of 18. The Mosquito won the Ig Nobel for Peace in 2006. The Ig Nobels celebrate the quirkier side of serious scientific endeavour, honouring "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think".

* Over 80% of Internet traffic is videos

* Mark Zuckerberg's personal security budget in 2021 was nearly 16 times what Amazon Inc. spent to keep Jeff Bezos safe. - BloombergQuint

* Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, was strongly involved with the deaf community having a wife and a mother that were both deaf.

* A quant trader is a specialized trader who applies mathematical and quantitative methods to evaluate financial products or markets. This way, they can find trading opportunities and calculate risks.

* Trigger finger or Stenosing Tenosynovitis (stuh-NO-sing ten-o-sin-o-VIE-tis) is a repetitive stress injury. If trigger finger is severe, your finger may become locked in a bent position.

* Bangalore Blue grape, also simply called Bangalore Blue, is a variety of fox grape (Vitis labrusca) grown in districts around Bangalore in India. It is one of the three major varieties of grape in the state of Karnataka (the other two being Thomson seedless and Anab-E-Shahi Dilkush). It received a geographical indication tag from the Government of India in 2013.

* Table sugar (sucrose) has 50% fructose (and 50% glucose) and so is very similar to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose, that are absorbed directly into blood during digestion. When sucrose is metabolized by your body, your liver takes care of the fructose while the glucose is taken to your bloodstream with the help of insulin.  Fructose is very sweet monosaccharide or simple sugar molecule, roughly one-and-a-half times sweeter than sucrose (white sugar). 

* Two bonded monosaccharides create a disaccharide. There are also three types of disaccharides: sucrose, lactose, and maltose.

* Fructose is handled by the body in a different way to glucose as it is metabolised in the liver  and converted into energy. As a result, blood sugar (glucose) levels do not rise as rapidly after fructose consumption compared to other simple sugars as your body doesn’t need insulin to process fructose. When you eat too much fructose the liver cannot process it fast enough and instead, starts to make fats that are carried in the blood and stored as triglycerides - the body's main form of fat. 

* The glycemic index is a ranking of how quickly foods make your blood sugar levels rise after eating them. High GI foods are very easily broken down into glucose. Glucose is the defining standard and has a GI value of 100. As glucose stimulates insulin release from the pancreas, it also results in the release of two other hormones, leptin and ghrelin. Leptin is known as the appetite suppressor and ghrelin the appetite increaser. It is thought that lower GI foods (such as wholegrains, proteins and those lower in glucose) suppress ghrelin, therefore regulating satiety.

* The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the body. It extends from the pelvis to the gluteal tuberosity of femur, the largest, strongest bone of the human body.

* Thyroid disease is often hereditary

* The 1st Brahmans was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised at Oudh by Captain T Naylor in 1776 for service in the army of Nawab Wazir of Oudh, and was known as the Nawab Wazir's Regiment. It was transferred to the East India Company in 1777. In 1922, it was designated as the 4th Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment. The regiment was disbanded in 1931 due to retrenchment in the Indian Army.

* Rising Flame is a National Award winning nonprofit organisation based in India, working for recognition, protection, and promotion of human rights of people with disabilities, particularly women and youth with disabilities. 

* Corporate hospitals in Hyderabad pay only ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 monthly salary to those with just an MBBS degree, which takes 5.5 years to achieve. Payment for doctors with post-graduation or super-specialty degree is broadly covered under two or three categories — fee for service (a certain percentage in charges per case goes to the doctors); a monthly salary; and then there is another form of payment in which a team of doctors is paid a fixed package. Senior doctors and hospital CEOs said the ‘fee for service’ is usually opted for by experienced medical professionals since they can get patients based on their prominence — an advantage not available to newbies. The salary structure is determined by the specialisation and it varies from ₹75,000 to 3 lakh. Government hospitals have a hierarchy of doctors, who are placed at different levels as per their experience and responsibilities. An assistant professor at a Telangana government hospital starts out with a gross salary of around ₹94,000 to ₹1.07 lakh, an associate professor makes ₹1.08 lakh to ₹1. 22 lakh, and professors draw a salary of ₹1.98 lakh to ₹2.23 lakh. The salary for specialists and super-specialists is the same. All faculty members receive an annual increment of 3%. The pay structure is similar to the University Grants Commission scale. Doctors and health staff get 35% of the money earned through Aarogyasri scheme. - The Hindu

* ICICI Bank iMobile Pay app enables withdrawal for self or by any beneficiary from ATM without the need for any card or PIN.

* Poet and politician Dr. Kumar Vishwas served as the script and dialogue consultant for Dasvi, the 2022 social comedy movie. The standout dialogue in Dasvi,  is about how government officers receive bribe for working and salary for not working.