This Week I Learned - Week #148

This Week I Learned -

Possibly, Azure Stack will replace Windows Azure Pack, but Microsoft has typically stopped short of making such direct statements. Comments from Microsoft representatives on the UserVoice forum where Microsoft gathers public feedback indicate Azure Stack is a improved version of Azure Pack

Loved these excellent, thoughtfully consolidated architecture posters on Microsoft Cloud Services

* Azure Storage Table rows can be queried with PowerShell. Its results can be extracted to a CSV file. The script can be scheduled to be run automatically with Task Scheduler on your local machine.

* Azure SQL Database can be created with PowerShell and ARM Template too

As per Capers Jones, the relative cost of fixing defect increases with the progress of software development life cycle.
Brazil grew at 7.6 percent in 2010, and had discovered huge oil reserves which the then President Lula likened to “winning a lottery ticket”. Yet the country shrank by 3.8% last year, and its debt got downgraded to junk

Martin Luther King stated, “Gandhi was probably the first person in history to lift the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force on a large scale.” Apparently he considered Gandhi to be ‘‘the greatest Christian of the modern world’’

Franklin Templeton was formed in 1992 when Franklin Resources, another asset manager, acquired Templeton, Galbraith & Hansberger. Vijay Advani, currently co-president, Franklin Resources set up the India business in 1995. He started the India operations single-handedly while working out of a hotel room for six months. His first few employees were hired when he was yet to secure an asset management licence from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). Franklin Templeton is one of India's biggest asset management businesses. The fund was one of the first members of the Association of Mutual Funds of India (Amfi). It was also the first fund in India to be allowed feeder funds to invest in the overseas market. It has its back office (for global tech, back-end operations and fund accounting) in Hyderabad which continues to do a range of local as well as international work - Forbes India

* "The fears we don't face become our limits" - Robin Sharma

* If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it.

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