Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned - *  SAP HANA has been certified by SAP to run on both Amazon EC2 cr1 and r3.8xlarge instance types with support for production , a feature  currently missing in Azure * Eighty-seven percent of Fortune 500 customers are on the Microsoft cloud *  From a presentation by Bill Wilder : - There is no “best” architecture – it is situational, a Technical Business Decision - Performance is what an individual user experiences; scalability is how many users get to experience it - Sticky Load Balancer (on Azure) has problems of its own when we get to auto-scaling - Sharding - Horizontal scaling approach for data stores - SLA penalties are limited to the service costs. Service costs != your business losses * a9t9 offers free online OCR & OCR API services *  youtube-dl  is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. *  When Microsoft releases a product, it of...

A compilation of important points from the Cloud Governance articles I read: Cloud services governance involves applying specific policies or principles to the use of cloud services. It can be useful to think of cloud governance by examining its opposite: the free-for-all chaos in which cloud services are used by an organization without any oversight in place. To avoid this chaos, put polices in place for cloud service use to control the leakage of private information to the cloud and to control the  excessive use of cloud services (which must be paid for, after all). With governance and security in place, cloud computing can be used in safety and confidence. The idea of Cloud governance is to monitor cloud resource usage, such as servers and services, and to limit what systems and users can do with those resources. Cloud governance comes in many flavors, including service level, data level and platform level Service­ level or API governance installs policies around acces...

With Chrome & Internet Explorer, it is possible to print only selected text within a web page . Today, I had need to print a web page without some sections like video and unwanted subtitles. It turns out, with Chrome Developer Tools (keyboard shortcut F12) you can delete the tags representing that section and then print the page. After the web page loads, hit F12 to open the Developer Tools pane and use the Magnifier icon to select the element in the page to delete Within the Developer Tools pane, select the tag containing the content that needs to be deleted and hit the Delete key to remove it from the web page before printing it. Also see:  HOW TO extract sets of pages from a PDF document or web page to a new PDF