This Week I Learned - Week #277
This Week I Learned -
* SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure is recommended for SQL Server running on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. It stores the metadata in the msdb database and uses system jobs to write full database and transaction log backups. SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure can be configured at the database level or at configured with default settings for an instance of SQL Server.
* The Indian Rail Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), designed an Internet-based ticketing system. Initially, tickets were delivered by courier to customers and in they moved to a completely web-based e-ticketing system where tickets could be printed using a web-based application.
Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) uses Pivotal GemFire, a distributed in-memory database which is part of Pivotal Big Data Suite, to support high concurrent transactions for reservations and ticket purchases in the newly launched Indian Railways next generation e-ticketing system. Pivotal GemFire is an in-memory data grid (IMDG) powered by the Apache Geode open source project - Pivotal Case Studies
* SRE, which evolved at Google to meet internal needs in the early 2000s independently of the DevOps movement, happens to embody the philosophies of DevOps, but has a much more prescriptive way of measuring and achieving reliability through engineering and operations work - Google Cloud Platform Blog
* Electricity bill correlates with socioeconomic status
* Prince, Jimi Hendrix and Howard Hughes offer cautionary tales..because they died without wills.
* Don’t apologize for not being able to complete four tasks in an impossibly short amount of time. Just say: “I have time for two out of four today. Which do you prefer?”
* Even as the Supreme Court mulls the legality of the Aadhaar project, and the BN Srikrishna Committee seeks to evolve a data protection framework for India, state governments are racing to gather as much citizen data as possible. Andhra Pradesh is not the only state creating such detailed databases — it is merely the most successful - HuffPost India
* SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure is recommended for SQL Server running on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. It stores the metadata in the msdb database and uses system jobs to write full database and transaction log backups. SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure can be configured at the database level or at configured with default settings for an instance of SQL Server.
* The Indian Rail Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), designed an Internet-based ticketing system. Initially, tickets were delivered by courier to customers and in they moved to a completely web-based e-ticketing system where tickets could be printed using a web-based application.
Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) uses Pivotal GemFire, a distributed in-memory database which is part of Pivotal Big Data Suite, to support high concurrent transactions for reservations and ticket purchases in the newly launched Indian Railways next generation e-ticketing system. Pivotal GemFire is an in-memory data grid (IMDG) powered by the Apache Geode open source project - Pivotal Case Studies
* SRE, which evolved at Google to meet internal needs in the early 2000s independently of the DevOps movement, happens to embody the philosophies of DevOps, but has a much more prescriptive way of measuring and achieving reliability through engineering and operations work - Google Cloud Platform Blog
* Electricity bill correlates with socioeconomic status
* Prince, Jimi Hendrix and Howard Hughes offer cautionary tales..because they died without wills.
* Don’t apologize for not being able to complete four tasks in an impossibly short amount of time. Just say: “I have time for two out of four today. Which do you prefer?”
* Even as the Supreme Court mulls the legality of the Aadhaar project, and the BN Srikrishna Committee seeks to evolve a data protection framework for India, state governments are racing to gather as much citizen data as possible. Andhra Pradesh is not the only state creating such detailed databases — it is merely the most successful - HuffPost India
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