This Week I Learned - Week #47 2021

This Week I Learned - 

* Azure availability zones-enabled services are designed to provide the right level of resiliency and flexibility. They can be configured in two ways. They can be either zone redundant, with automatic replication across zones, or zonal, with instances pinned to a specific zone. You can also combine these approaches.

* Many customers who had a metro Disaster Recovery strategy while hosting applications on-premises sometimes look to mimic this strategy once they migrate applications over to Azure. These customers acknowledge the fact that metro Disaster Recovery strategy may not work in case of a large-scale physical disaster and accept this risk. File level backup and restore are supported. Disk and VM level backup and restore are not supported.

* The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. Each perspective comprises a set of capabilities that functionally related stakeholders own or manage in the cloud transformation journey. 

* Remix is a full stack web framework. Remix is built to run at the edge.

* Transclusion is generally the inclusion of the content of a document into another document by reference. In a Wikipedia context, it is the use of the template functionality of MediaWiki to include the same content in multiple documents without having to edit those documents separately

* The word "meme" was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book ‘The Selfish Gene’ as an attempt to explain how ideas replicate, mutate, and evolve. Presciently, this is exactly how memes on the Internet go viral.

* Disney has removed the 12th episode of 16th Season "Goo Goo Gai Pan" of The Simpsons from the Hong Kong edition of Disney+, which described the family’s visit to Beijing.

* MFCentral is the investor services hub conceived by KFintech & CAMS that provides the convenience to transact across all folios of an investor.

* Tier II Account in National Pension System (NPS) is an add-on account which provides you the flexibility to invest and withdraw from various schemes available in NPS without any exit load. There is no lock in period for Tier II account. Investment experts believe investors can use Tier II Account of NPS as a substitute of bank's savings account...but you will have to pay transaction charges for each transaction. There is no minimum balance requirement or minimum annual contribution for NPS Tier 2 account. - Mint

* Indian companies have raised a staggering Rs 74,000 crore through IPOs in the first 10 months of 2021—the highest in any January-October period in the past 20 years. The year may end with Rs 1 trillion raised through IPOs. Yet, three of the four largest IPOs are from loss-making consumer tech companies: Paytm (Rs 18,300 crore), Zomato (Rs 9,375 crore), and PB Fintech or Policybazaar (Rs 6,273 crore). 

* Policy Bazaar is an insurance aggregator & a market leader with a 93% market share. 

* Cloudtail is Amazon's largest seller with over Rs 16,000 crore sales in FY21.

* The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, treats the government and its agencies as a privileged class whose operations are always in public interest and individual privacy concerns are secondary, former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has said in his dissent note against a parliamentary committee report on the legislation. Justice Srikrishna called the bill a step towards an Orwellian State. - BloombergQuint

* Paneer is high in protein and fat, which makes it a favorite among those on the keto diet, a market valued at $9.5 billion in 2019.  The U.S. is the biggest market for ketogenic diets. - BloombergQuint

* India is the world’s biggest cotton grower and ranks second in wheat, sugar and rice. 

* Uttar Pradesh is all set to become the only State in the country to have five international airports. Kerala has 4 international airports located in Trivandrum, Cochin, Calicut, Kannur. Trivandrum International airport was established in 1932 by Colnl Goda Varma Raja.  Juhu aerodrome founded in 1928 is India's first civil aviation airport.

* Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL) is a holding company of Reliance Retail – the company that owns all the brands, such as Reliance Fresh, Reliance Digital, and so on, and all the offline stores. There’s an online offering called JioMart which is also owned by Reliance Retail. In 2020, RRVL received investments of ₹ 47,000 cr. from foreign investors, including PEs like Silverlake and KKR, and Government-owned funds like Mubadala, ADIA, and GIC. - CapitalMind

* “Knowledge” and “Technology” are very different concepts – the former refers to the laws of science which permeate the world (eg. Newton’s Laws of Motion) whilst the latter refers to the application of science to day-to-day life (eg. the steam engine created by Robert Stephenson which powered the Industrial Revolution). - BloombergQuint

* The tissues found in camel's hump are adipocytes which can transform fat cells to water through oxidation whenever the body needs it. - The fat tissue is broken during metabolism; it produces into energy and also produces water. One gram of fat on oxidation produces one gram of water.

* Air quality is determined by the levels of air pollutants PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Particulate matter (PM) comprises tiny particles that negatively impact health. PMs vary in size, most damaging are PM2.5 and PM10 – with a diameter of less than 2.5 μm and 10μm respectively. A human hair’s diameter is 50-70 μm. In 2020, India had 46 of the world’s 100 most polluted cities. In 2019, 1.67 million deaths or 17.8% of total deaths in India were caused by air pollution, according to the Lancet. More than 90 percent of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds WHO limits. Delhi is currently the most polluted city in the world.  Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan share 49 of the 50 of the most polluted cities worldwide [2020 World Air Quality Report]. 

* A Booted Eagle, satellite-tagged in Russia, travelled to Mumbai city. Its Russian handlers shared coordinates so that bird lovers can spot it.

* Muhammad Ali became the World Boxing Champion in 1964. In 1966, he refused to be drafted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs, and opposition to the American involvement in Vietnam. Ali was arrested by the U.S. authorities, found guilty of draft evasion, and stripped of his titles by the World Boxing Federation. Refusing to bow down, Ali took the authorities to the Supreme Court which overturned his conviction in 1971.

* Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898-1990) was a poet, actor, and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He was the younger brother of Late Sarojini Naidu. 

* Satyajit Ray's great-grandmother was India's first fully qualified woman physician; she completed her medical training in Edinburgh, and delivered baby Satyajit in Calcutta in 1921. Both his grandfather and his father, though illustrators and writers by profession, had scientific and technical training. Ray himself was fascinated by science and technology. In addition to making films, Ray was a bestselling writer of fiction, mainly detective novellas and science fantasies, and a skilled book and magazine illustrator—he had trained in fine art and graphic design before he took to film-making. - Lancet

* Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) was a British-American actress who began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. Throughout her career, Taylor's personal life was the subject of constant media attention. She was married eight times to seven men, converted to Judaism, endured several serious illnesses, and led a jet set lifestyle, including assembling one of the most expensive private collections of jewelry in the world. Taylor was the first celebrity to create her own collection of fragrances.

* Howard Hughes (1905–1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Hughes survived four airplane accidents.