Sketchplanations
Over at Sketchplanations.com , Jono Hey explains concepts, ideas, facts with a sketch He draws his "Sketchplanations" using Sketchbook Pro on an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil
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Comparison of Azure Managed Disk types
Annotated comparison table derived from official Azure documentation - Ultra disk Premium SSD Standard SSD Standard HDD Disk type SSD SSD SSD HDD Scenario IO-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, top tier databases (for example, SQL, Oracle), and other transaction-heavy workloads. Production and performance sensitive workloads Web servers, lightly used enterprise applications and dev/test Backup, non-critical, infrequent access Max disk size 65,536 gibibyte (GiB) Range - Fixed sizes from 4 GiB up to 64 TiB 32,767 GiB 32,767 GiB 32,767 GiB Max throughput 2,000 MiB/s Range - 256 KiB/s for each provisioned IOPS to 2000 MBps per disk 900 MiB/s 750 MiB/s 500 MiB/s Max IOPS 160,000 Range - 300 IOPS/GiB to 160 K IOPS per disk 20,000 6,000 2,000 Notes Outbound data transfers (data going out of Azure data centers) incur billing for bandwidth usage Some of the current limitations: - Supported only in regions - Can only be u...
Saying "No"
From Harvard Business Review articles on how to say "No" - To decline gracefully say: “Thank you so much for asking me to be part of this committee. I’m really honored, but I’ll need to respectfully decline because I’m at capacity right now. Thank you for your understanding.” When you’re asked to attend a meeting where your presence is not necessary: “I saw the meeting invite. I appreciate the notice that it’s happening. Jerry will be representing our team. I know he’ll do a great job and will report back on anything we need to know.” When someone asks you to do something that isn’t your job, you have every right to say no “Thanks so much for the invite, but I already have some other commitments.” Saying no to time commitments that don’t align with your priorities or needs can lead to a small amount of initial discomfort but save you hours of time in the end. “That’s not my area of expertise. I’m happy to give you Cheryl’s contact info, and I’m sure she would...