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This Week I Learned -  * Reliance Industries signed a 10-year partnership with Microsoft Azure in 2019. Jio will set up datacenters in locations across India, consisting of next-generation compute, storage and networking capabilities, and Microsoft will deploy its Azure platform in these datacenters to support Jio’s offerings. 2 regions in India, Jio India Central and Jio India West can be seen on the Azure Status page . Jio regions are available to Jio customers only. * At age 35, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  * In 1920, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose stood 4th in the Indian Civil Service exam. *  Tax loopholes billionaires use *  Do Aankhen Barah Haath  (transl. Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by V. Shantaram. The film was inspired by the story of an "open prison" experiment: Swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara. The real experiment was conduct...

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation.  Using Kubernetes, you can cluster together groups of hosts running these containers, spanning on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds.  Image: Red Hat 1. Who maintains Kubernetes?  The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) now maintains the project. Google worked with the Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015 and offered Kubernetes as a seed technology. CNCF technologies enable cloud portability without vendor lock-in.  2. How often is Kubernetes updated?  Kubernetes releases currently happen approximately three times per year . Kubernetes 1.23 was the last release of 2021. 3. What is the need to upgrade to a new Kubernetes version?  Kubernetes 1.19 and newer receive approximately 1 year of patch support . You need to upgrade t...

 This Week I Learned -  * Microsoft  FastTrack for Azure (FTA) team, part of Azure Engineering at Microsoft provides a design review and guidance checklist [ Excel ]. Main areas of recommendations and guidance are: >Azure Firewall >Azure Networking >Defender For Cloud >Identity >Sentinel >VM Security Checks *  Failure mode analysis (FMA) is a process for building resiliency into a system, by identifying possible failure points in the system. * A multicloud strategy enables customers to leverage services that span different cloud platforms, enabling them to select the services best suited to the workloads or apps they are managing. *  Commonly cited benefits of a multicloud strategy include : Flexibility: Customers wish to have the flexibility to optimize their architectures leveraging the cloud services best suited to their specific needs, including the flexibility to select services based on features or costs Avoiding vendor lock-in: A...

This Week I Learned -  * The Microsoft Azure Developer's Cheat Sheet could have provided 4 word descriptions of services like Google Cloud Cheat Sheet does * According to Oracle , MySQL HeatWave fully managed service, powered by the integrated HeatWave in-memory query accelerator, enables customers to run OLTP and OLAP workloads directly from their MySQL database. MySQL HeatWave is 6.5X faster than Amazon Redshift at half the cost, 7X faster than Snowflake at one-fifth the cost, and 1400X faster than Amazon Aurora at half the cost. * Gmail has a Confidentiality Mode feature designed to restrict the ability of those who receive your email to perform specific actions with it, like a print, copy, forward, or download. To enable this feature, click on the 'Toggle confidential mode' icon. * You can add a delegate to share your Gmail inbox without sharing your password to manage your account. The delegate can send, read and delete email messages.  To enable, go...

This Week I Learned -   * The Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Landing Zone Accelerator provides a specific architectural approach and reference implementation for preparing landing zone subscriptions for an enterprise Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) deployment. * Oracle Cloud egress is nearly 12x more cost efficient than the leading competitors. Some use cases where egress costs could be a factor : - Moving data into an on-prem data warehouse - Moving data for DR purposes - Restoring backups stored in cloud to on-premise - Database replication (in some situations) * Broadcom, which designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software, will acquire VMware, an enterprise software company for $61 Billion. Broadcom Software Group will rebrand and operate as VMware.  * A 2015 study by Microsoft concluded that the human attention span had dropped to eight seconds (shrinking from 12 seconds only 15 years earlier), emphasizing the challenge of capturing and...

In my endeavor to be multi-cloud fluent , I took the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exam and cleared it! I found Google's Cloud Skills Boost Cloud Architect Learning Path  courses similar to Microsoft Learn's Learning Paths & Modules - refreshingly crisp & easy to digest. The course content with great explanatory illustrations is also a great future reference to keep. I especially liked the reasoning provided in the official Google sample tests with answers, extremely useful - Sample questions and answers available from the  Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exam home page . Practice exam quiz in the  Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Exam  course To better understand and differentiate between Google Cloud services under each area, the following were invaluable: Google official documentation on comparison of AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud which is frequently updated GCP Sketch Notes ...