This Week I Learned - Week #11 2020

This Week I Learned -

Azure Blueprints: Templates for quick, repeatable creation of fully governed cloud subscriptions. Simplify largescale Azure deployments by packaging key environment artifacts, such as Azure Resource Manager templates, role-based access controls, and policies, in a single blueprint definition.

David das Neves has nicely compiled learning resources needed for various Azure Certification exams

* Amazon offers a free Product Advertising API. PA API version 4 will be shutdown and from March 9, 2020,  PA-API 5.0 has to be used. PA-API 5.0 supports the lighter and slimmer JSON format over XML supported earlier. It is possible to look up for Item using EAN/UPC/ISBN

* Some video players now offer searching with subtitles

* The tradition of a ‘Hello, World’ program goes back at least to 1978.

Around 1900, pushover meant "an easy job or task," and by 1922 it also referred to people who are easily taken advantage of.

Parabiosis is a 150-year-old surgical technique that unites the vasculature of two living animals

Most viruses, including the coronavirus, are between 50-200 nanometres — truly nanoparticles

* A wet market is a complex of stalls selling fish, meat and wild animals. One such market in Wuhan has been linked to the current outbreak of Coronavirus - NPR

* India is the only country that has both lions and tigers

* The earliest possible evidence in stone of a giraffe has been recognized on the southern plinth of the platform of the Sun temple at Konark, Odisha
*  Tamil is one of the official languages of Singapore

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, an MHRD Project, seeks to promote cultural diversity through mutual interaction & reciprocity between people of different States and UTs so that a common spirit of understanding resonates throughout the country. Every State and UT in the country is paired with another State/UT for a year, during which they would carry out a structured engagement with one another in the spheres of language, literature, cuisine, festivals, cultural events, tourism etc.This year, Andhra Pradesh is paired with Punjab and Haryana with Telangana

* Stop having pre-conceived notions about success and failure. Life is about the journey and not the destination. Concentrate on doing the best you can. The willingness to fail is sometimes more important than the goal itself - Sanjeev SanyalIndian economist and author of "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline", "Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography"

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