Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

If necessity is the mother of invention, then maybe laziness is the mother of innovation  - Danny Brian, Vice President and Fellow, Gartner At Gartner Catalyst 2018, Brian named laziness, impatience and hubris as the three secret virtues of a great IT practitioner -- borrowing them from acclaimed Perl programmer Larry Wall . In Wall's book, laziness is defined as "the quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure." Brian lists specific examples of what true laziness requires of an IT practitioner: not repeating yourself; not reinventing the wheel -- utilizing the best frameworks and tools to save time and effort; focusing on the most important problems; knowledge and recognition of design patterns, which avoid solving the same or similar problems multiple times; ensuring test-driven development in order to avoid hours spent later in panic mode trying to figure out what broke; developing processes and procedures that actual...

This Week I Learned - * A Basic SKU Load balancer is restricted to a single availability set, virtual machine scale set, or a single machine. The Standard tier can span any virtual machine in a single virtual network, including blends of scale sets, availability sets, and machines - Petri *  Containers are not isolated from OS so the OS of the container must match the OS of the container host. * By feeding audio from friends, family or vids of your favourite celebrity to Azure Cognitive Services, training a customised voice that sounds just like them, you can make them say whatever you want! *  Web2py is an open-source web application framework written in the Python programming language for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications * Netflix's FAST.com speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed.  It also shows download, upload speed and latency * "So, let's say you want to chang...

This Week I Learned - * Azure Firewall, now generally available, is a cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It is a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability. With Azure Firewall you can centrally create, enforce, and log application and network connectivity policies across subscriptions and virtual networks. * Az is a new cross-platform Azure PowerShell module intended as a replacement for the AzureRM.Netcore and AzureRM modules. Az currently ships in Cloud Shell *  Google’s engineers exist in a Great Chain of Being that begins at Level 1. At the bottom are the I.T. support staff. Level 2s are fresh out of college; Level 3s often have master’s degrees. Getting to Level 4 takes several years, or a Ph.D. Most progression stops at Level 5. Level 6 engineers—the top ten per cent—are so capable that they could be said to be the reason a project succeeds; Level 7s are L...