This Week I Learned - Week #35 2020

This Week I Learned - 

* Azure Cost Management + Billing aids in increasing organizational accountability by implementing governance policies for effective enterprise cloud cost management, and increase accountability with budgets, cost allocation, and chargebacks. Chargebacks are internal charges assigned to various departments. Showback is an analysis of technology usage across the board. Microsoft offers a Cloud Adoption Framework Governance Benchmark Tool to assess and aid in designing a governance strategy. It also offers governance guides based on the complexity of the enterprise

* Every tenant is linked to a single Azure AD instance, which is shared with all tenant's subscriptions. Resources from one subscription are isolated from resources in other subscriptions. An owner of a tenant can decide to have multiple subscriptions:

• when Subscriptions limits are reached
• to use different payment methods
• to isolate resources between different departments, projects, regional offices, and so on.

* Source-to-Image (S2I) is a tool for building reproducible, Docker-formatted container images. It produces ready-to-run images by injecting application source into a container image and assembling a new image. 

* SFTP Gateway is a secure-by-default, pre-configured SFTP server available in Azure Marketplace that saves uploaded files to Azure Blob Storage. This product is built on the base CentOS 7 image found on Azure.

* Oracle LiveLabs gives you free access to Oracle's Cloud to run a wide variety of labs and workshops

* CoreOS is not a Linux distro for end users. It’s a distro for deploying applications packaged as docker containers. The benefit of using CoreOS is less configuration needed compared to e.g. Ubuntu.

* Sudo, short for Super do, allows users to run commands with root or superuser privileges. 

* When uranium is enriched, only 10% of the material can be burned as fuel. The other unused 90% is unused byproduct that must be stored carefully. Currently there are 700,000 metric tons just piling up. 

* Nathan Myhrvold  is the author of a 5 volume, 2600 page book about bread - Modernist Bread:The Art and Science. While working as chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold took leave to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine La Varenne in France. After Microsoft, in 2000 Myhrvold co-founded Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy, known as "the ultimate patent trolls," by many in the business world, which has acquired over 30,000 patents. According to The New York Times, Intellectual Ventures at one point controlled nearly 70,000 intellectual property assets (patents and patents pending) that it has used to generate approximately $3 billion in revenues, primarily in the form of license fees from large corporations. The company responds that it has returned more than $500 million to individual inventors and most of the remaining revenues to its investors. 

* BBC is calling Hyderabad, Asia’s Silicon Valley. It is home to Amazon’s largest office building in the world. The office and its campus spanning 1.8 million square feet, are equal to nearly 65 football fields. This city of nearly 10 million, is already a base in India for other multinational tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple, which spent $25 million for the development of its offices there.

* Education technology firm Byju's has acquired WhiteHat Jr, a startup focused on imparting coding skills to kids, for $300 million (about ₹2240 crore). 

* Bandicota is a genus of rodents from Asia. They are known as the bandicoot rats. Their common name and genus name are derived from the Telugu language word pandikokku