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This Week I Learned - * " Kubernetes had become a badge of engineering sophistication.  And we wore it proudly — until it started hurting. I still use Kubernetes. I respect it deeply. But I no longer romanticize it. "  - Azeem Telli , Hotstar * When the final New Zealand wicket fell in the 19th over, giving India a 96-run victory, the concurrent viewership was 74.5 crore and reached 82.1 crore (0.82 billion) by the end of the post-match presentation. The number broke the previous record for an ICC tournament final at 5.9 crore peak concurrent viewership, registered during the India vs Australia match in the 50-overs format on November 20, 2023. Peak concurrency is the highest number of viewers during a live stream at a time. Hotstar uses Akamai + AWS CDN for delivery. * On March 2, strikes hit two AWS data centres in the UAE and one in Bahrain, disrupting local banking apps, airport systems in Dubai and Kuwait, and the UAE stock exchange. AWS and Microsoft Azure may rero...

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This Week I Learned -  * A literal disaster recovery - AWS operates 123 Availability Zones across 39 regions globally. One of the AWS Availability Zones in UAE was impacted by objects that struck the data center on March 1st. Vercel's Dubai region (dxb1) setup hosted on AWS me-central-1 is also impacted as a result. The event highlighted risks from physical incidents amid tense regional geopolitics. * Google Cloud is the only major hyperscaler without a data center in Dubai. *   S Anand shares his well-thought out AI prompts publicly on Github . Lots to learn & emulate. I love this prompt -  Think like an expert. In this context: - What patterns would an expert in this field check / recognize that beginners would miss? - What questions would an expert ask that a beginner would not know to? - What problems / failures would an expert anticipate that beginners may not be aware of? - How would an expert analyze this? At each step, explain what they are looking for and w...