This Week I Learned - Week #26 2019
This Week I Learned -
* The browser must download and parse CSS files before it can show the page, which makes CSS a render-blocking resource. Inlining extracted styles in the <head> of the HTML document eliminates the need to make an additional request to fetch these styles. The remainder of the CSS can be loaded asynchronously - web.dev
* Azure Bastion is a new managed PaaS service that provides seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to your virtual machines over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This is completed without any exposure of the public IPs on your virtual machines. Azure Bastion provisions directly in your Azure Virtual Network, providing bastion host or jump server as-a-service and integrated connectivity to all virtual machines in your virtual networking using RDP/SSH directly from and through your browser and the Azure portal experience. This can be executed with just two clicks and without the need to worry about managing network security policies.
* Azure Shared Image Gallery provides a simple way to share your applications with others in your organization, within or across Azure Active Directory (AD) tenants and regions. This enables you to expedite regional expansion or DevOps processes and simplify your cross-region HA/DR setup.
* Microsoft recommends Azure Application Gateway V2 (Standard_v2) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 (WAF_v2) instead of the V1 SKU for new applications/workloads and they come with a 99.95% SLA
* Processes in containers are running on the host kernel or OS. You can't run a Linux process natively on Windows OS, therefore you can't run Linux processes in Windows containers and vice-versa
* Windows Containers & Linux Containers are different and their images are not compatible
* Creating a model to classify images would usually involve creating your own deep learning model from scratch. This includes having a very large and diverse set of training images with a portion of them set aside as a test set, a good convolutional neural network as the model, and a GPU enabled machine to do the training. Then you were able to use pre-trained models and build a good model on your own images without a big training set through transfer learning. But now, with the Microsoft Custom Vision service, you don’t even need to build the models themselves.
* Intuit, a financial services company who brought us QuickBooks and Turbo Tax has built service known as Fasal. It is a simple but sophisticated text based platform, now using complicated algorithms, to help farmers get the best prices. It has over 1.5 million users who enjoy a 20% increase in their bottom-line.
* The PCI DSS is a global information security standard designed to prevent fraud through increased control of credit card data. Organizations that accept payments from credit cards must follow PCI DSS standards if they accept payment cards from the five major credit card brands - Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB. Compliance with PCI DSS is also required for any organization that stores, processes, or transmits payment and cardholder data. Azure is built for the specific compliance needs of key industries
* Michiko Maruyama is a doctor who integrates medicine, art and design
* Some premium Debit cards offer benefits such as facility to convert debit card purchases for select merchants into EMIs, contactless payments (maximum amount allowed by RBI for such transactions is only ₹2,000), cashback, redeemable reward points, airport lounge access, vouchers and fire, burglary, personal accident insurance
* Compared to Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), Unified Payment Interface (UPI) requires only Virtual Payment Address (VPA) of recipient without needing the beneficiary to be added first. However, while 2 lakh per day can be transferred with IMPS, there is a 1 lakh limit with UPI
* The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was built in three years at an estimated cost of 80,000 crore/ 880 billion rupees ($12.9 billion).
* We are particularly likely to copy others who are successful or high-prestige.
* "The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues" - Issac Asimov
* The browser must download and parse CSS files before it can show the page, which makes CSS a render-blocking resource. Inlining extracted styles in the <head> of the HTML document eliminates the need to make an additional request to fetch these styles. The remainder of the CSS can be loaded asynchronously - web.dev
* Azure Bastion is a new managed PaaS service that provides seamless RDP and SSH connectivity to your virtual machines over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This is completed without any exposure of the public IPs on your virtual machines. Azure Bastion provisions directly in your Azure Virtual Network, providing bastion host or jump server as-a-service and integrated connectivity to all virtual machines in your virtual networking using RDP/SSH directly from and through your browser and the Azure portal experience. This can be executed with just two clicks and without the need to worry about managing network security policies.
* Azure Shared Image Gallery provides a simple way to share your applications with others in your organization, within or across Azure Active Directory (AD) tenants and regions. This enables you to expedite regional expansion or DevOps processes and simplify your cross-region HA/DR setup.
* Microsoft recommends Azure Application Gateway V2 (Standard_v2) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 (WAF_v2) instead of the V1 SKU for new applications/workloads and they come with a 99.95% SLA
* Processes in containers are running on the host kernel or OS. You can't run a Linux process natively on Windows OS, therefore you can't run Linux processes in Windows containers and vice-versa
* Windows Containers & Linux Containers are different and their images are not compatible
* Creating a model to classify images would usually involve creating your own deep learning model from scratch. This includes having a very large and diverse set of training images with a portion of them set aside as a test set, a good convolutional neural network as the model, and a GPU enabled machine to do the training. Then you were able to use pre-trained models and build a good model on your own images without a big training set through transfer learning. But now, with the Microsoft Custom Vision service, you don’t even need to build the models themselves.
* Intuit, a financial services company who brought us QuickBooks and Turbo Tax has built service known as Fasal. It is a simple but sophisticated text based platform, now using complicated algorithms, to help farmers get the best prices. It has over 1.5 million users who enjoy a 20% increase in their bottom-line.
* Michiko Maruyama is a doctor who integrates medicine, art and design
* Some premium Debit cards offer benefits such as facility to convert debit card purchases for select merchants into EMIs, contactless payments (maximum amount allowed by RBI for such transactions is only ₹2,000), cashback, redeemable reward points, airport lounge access, vouchers and fire, burglary, personal accident insurance
* Compared to Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), Unified Payment Interface (UPI) requires only Virtual Payment Address (VPA) of recipient without needing the beneficiary to be added first. However, while 2 lakh per day can be transferred with IMPS, there is a 1 lakh limit with UPI
* The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was built in three years at an estimated cost of 80,000 crore/ 880 billion rupees ($12.9 billion).
* We are particularly likely to copy others who are successful or high-prestige.
* "The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all. The great ideas came as side issues" - Issac Asimov
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