This Week I Learned - Week #26 2020
This Week I Learned -
* For your Azure deployments, you already use Azure portal, Azure Cloud shell, Azure API to manage your resources. With Azure Arc, you can extend these capabilities to manage resources in hybrid environments such as datacenters, private, public clouds and the edge. Azure Arc can help with management and governance of servers and Kubernetes clusters across environments with a unified view in Azure Portal and API. Azure Arc also enables you to enforce compliance by centrally managing access and security policies with standardized Role Based Access Control.
* Azure Service Health is a free service that provides personalized guidance and support when you're affected by an Azure service problem. Advisor identifies subscriptions that don't have alerts configured and recommends configuring them.
* Embedded within the Azure Service Health suite of services you’ll find Azure Resource Health Alerts. This service provides a near real-time availability signal representing the health of your deployed Azure resources.
* Flexera has acquired RISC Networks, the maker of Cloudscape
* Ansible is still the preferred DevOps tool but Terraform’s popularity is growing according to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report. Azure Stack is the most preferred private and hybrid cloud platform and AWS Outposts is picking up momentum in the hybrid cloud market.
* Amazon Honeycode – now in beta – puts AWS into the no-code application competition with Microsoft Power Apps and Google Cloud’s AppSheet
* SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is stepping down from the board of Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba whose founder Jack Ma is quitting SoftBank’s board at the same time. Ma and Son have maintained a close friendship since the Japanese entrepreneur was an early investor in Alibaba.
* Tencent co-founder Pony Ma has toppled Jack Ma's position as the richest person in China.
* Approximately ₹3 trillion out of the total assets under management (AUM) of open-ended mutual funds of ₹23.29 trillion is invested in the dividend option. This amounts to around 12% of the total AUM.
* In 1990, India and China had the same per capita GDP. But they went past us in 1986. Till 1995, we didn’t really import anything from China. And then suddenly, we began importing everything from them. Our growth and [previous] expansion of 8.5 per cent was fueled, in part, by competing with, buying from and learning from China.
* The prefixes 690 to 699 are assigned to GS1 China, and ‘890’ is assigned to GS1 India. This means, the company is headquartered or has an office in that location, but the product could have been made in another country. It doesn’t mean products with those prefixes are made there. For example, if an Indian company imports a product from China and then re-packages it and sends it to Bangladesh, the product will have India’s barcode. In that case, a buyer in Bangladesh would not know the original manufacturer of the product - India Today
* For your Azure deployments, you already use Azure portal, Azure Cloud shell, Azure API to manage your resources. With Azure Arc, you can extend these capabilities to manage resources in hybrid environments such as datacenters, private, public clouds and the edge. Azure Arc can help with management and governance of servers and Kubernetes clusters across environments with a unified view in Azure Portal and API. Azure Arc also enables you to enforce compliance by centrally managing access and security policies with standardized Role Based Access Control.
* Azure Service Health is a free service that provides personalized guidance and support when you're affected by an Azure service problem. Advisor identifies subscriptions that don't have alerts configured and recommends configuring them.
* Embedded within the Azure Service Health suite of services you’ll find Azure Resource Health Alerts. This service provides a near real-time availability signal representing the health of your deployed Azure resources.
* Azure Architecture Maps:
- The OpenID Connect (OIDC) Architecture Map
- The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Architecture Map
- The Cloud-native Azure Application Architect Map
- The Azure Infrastructure Architect Map
- The Azure Security Architect Map
- The Azure Solution Architect Map
* Flexera has acquired RISC Networks, the maker of Cloudscape
* Ansible is still the preferred DevOps tool but Terraform’s popularity is growing according to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report. Azure Stack is the most preferred private and hybrid cloud platform and AWS Outposts is picking up momentum in the hybrid cloud market.
* Amazon Honeycode – now in beta – puts AWS into the no-code application competition with Microsoft Power Apps and Google Cloud’s AppSheet
* SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is stepping down from the board of Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba whose founder Jack Ma is quitting SoftBank’s board at the same time. Ma and Son have maintained a close friendship since the Japanese entrepreneur was an early investor in Alibaba.
* Tencent co-founder Pony Ma has toppled Jack Ma's position as the richest person in China.
* Approximately ₹3 trillion out of the total assets under management (AUM) of open-ended mutual funds of ₹23.29 trillion is invested in the dividend option. This amounts to around 12% of the total AUM.
* In 1990, India and China had the same per capita GDP. But they went past us in 1986. Till 1995, we didn’t really import anything from China. And then suddenly, we began importing everything from them. Our growth and [previous] expansion of 8.5 per cent was fueled, in part, by competing with, buying from and learning from China.
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| Source:The Hindu |
* We go out of our way to shield ourselves from failures, even in situations where we're just thinking to ourselves and not at risk of embarrassment. Making the most of failure.
* Shade Jacking - When a person makes some ridiculous comparison on a current news topic, completely not about said topic, with the intent to take some moral high ground by referencing their agenda, or old news story. Example - "Everybody is so upset about a dead lion, but nobody even cares about dead babies"
* In philosophy, absurdism is the idea that the universe has no meaning and yet people assign meaning to things. Al Jaffee, though, saw these things as something to satire, to mock.
* Shade Jacking - When a person makes some ridiculous comparison on a current news topic, completely not about said topic, with the intent to take some moral high ground by referencing their agenda, or old news story. Example - "Everybody is so upset about a dead lion, but nobody even cares about dead babies"
* In philosophy, absurdism is the idea that the universe has no meaning and yet people assign meaning to things. Al Jaffee, though, saw these things as something to satire, to mock.
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