This Week I Learned - Week #33 2020

This Week I Learned - 

* Azure automation state configuration is the service you use to make sure that your DSC configurations are managed properly and deployed across your nodes (virtual machines). 

* Configuration Management implements the policies, procedures, techniques, and tools that manage, evaluate proposed changes, track the status of changes, and maintain an inventory of system. 

* The previously named Service Bus Relay service is now called Azure Relay. The Azure Relay service enables you to securely expose services that run in your corporate network to the public cloud.

* Terraform uses plugins called providers that each define and manage a set of resource types. Most providers are associated with a particular cloud or on-premises infrastructure service, allowing Terraform to manage infrastructure objects within that service.

* Because Terraform is managed separately from Azure, you might find that you can't provision some types of services or resources.

* Lens Kubernetes IDE is an open source, single unified IDE to manage local (e.g. minikube) or external (e.g. Docker Enterprise, EKS, AKS, GKE, Pharos, UCP, Rancher, Tanzu or OpenShift) clusters. 

* Reference implementation for a Enterprise-Scale foundation with hub and spoke architecture

* Cloud cost management is not just an operational concern. To be successful, it requires a tight collaboration among the disciplines of governance, architecture, operations, product management, finance and application development. 

* Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) is a Migration assessment service that helps customers make the best business case for AWS cloud planning and migration.

* The Well-Architected Labs repository contains documentation and code in the format of hands-on labs to help you learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices. The labs are categorized into levels, where 100 is introductory, 200/300 is intermediate and 400 is advanced.

* Amazon EC2 & RDS Instance Comparison tool

* AWS Security Documentation by Service Category

* Mind map for AWS Solution Architect Associate certification exam

* LinkedIn shows connections of a Profile beyond 500 as 500+. The count of followers in the Activity section can give a rough number of that Profile's LinkedIn connections.

* BYJU’s was started as a standard coaching class for CAT, the exam to get into Indian B-Schools, and therefore targeted individuals in the 21-25 age group. Byju R. started from a small town in Kerala, and went on to take the CAT. After scoring a 100 percentile he began teaching his friends, and then (he claims) cracked all the top business schools. Seeing the potential in CAT classes, he soon progressed to taking sessions in stadiums. Seeing an opportunity in the K-12 segment, BYJU’s gradually pivoted to online and offline video learning. Education needs the opposite of what Uber, Swiggy and the likes do – it needs non-standardization. The need for “hyper-personalization” has made education a fundamentally fragmented market, with countless schools, tuitions and ancillary content companies. 

* If your electronic device does not have an FCC ID, it means that the device has not been authorised for sale in the U.S. or its territories and may only be brought to the U.S. for the owner’s personal use.

* There are 21 types of disabilities as per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act and Social Inclusion

* Tree hugger is a slang term for environmentalists

* Mangroves are the only trees that thrive in saltwater. 

*  “Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction” test, or PCR, test....has allowed us to probe the genomes of the Earth: Its invention, in 1983, cleared the way for the Human Genome Project, the early diagnosis of certain cancers, and the study of ancient DNA. It works, in essence, like a zoom-and-enhance feature on a computer: Using a specific mix of chemicals, called “reagents,” and a special machine, called a “thermal cycler,” the PCR process duplicates a certain strand of genetic material hundreds of millions of times - The Atlantic

* Bhopal is known as the city of lakes

* Gandikota is a 300-feet-deep valley located in Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh that has similarities to Grand Canyon. Believed to be more than a thousand years old, the canyon is also known for the 13th-century Gandikota Fort – an intricately-carved citadel made of red sandstone.

* The lowering of the flags ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border is a daily military practice that the security forces of India (Border Security Force, BSF) and Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) have jointly followed since 1959. 

* The about 90,000-personnel strong Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is primarily tasked to guard the 3,488-km long Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China that runs from the Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh. 

* Li-Ning Company Limited is a Chinese company founded by Li Ning, a former Chinese Olympic gymnast, which makes athletic shoes and sporting goods. Li-Ning was an official marketing partner of the National Basketball Association and has/had sponsorship deals with ten players. In 2019, Li-Ning announced that it would not do business with the Houston Rockets after the General Manager of the NBA team tweeted in support of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.

* The science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" by English author H. G. Wells was written between 1895 and 1897. It is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. In The War of the Worlds, Wells depicted an imperial power as the victim of imperial aggression, and thus perhaps encouraging the reader to consider imperialism itself. Wells said that the plot arose from a discussion with his brother Frank about the catastrophic effect of the British on indigenous Tasmanians. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wells's earlier novel The Time Machine. The War of the Worlds has inspired seven films, as well as various radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, video games, a number of television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors.

Stamp showing the British Empire at the time of The War of the Worlds’ publication. 

* “We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living. Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.”  - V. S. Naipaul