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This Week I Learned - *  Azure Site Recovery enabled Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) now supports : - Azure VMs in availability zones - Encrypted VMs - VMs using accelerated networking - VMs using Storage Spaces Direct - VMs using Standard Solid State Drive (SSD) disks - Unmanaged VMs using firewall-enabled storage accounts - New Linux versions * A load balancer is restricted to a single availability set, virtual machine scale set, or a single machine. The Standard tier can span any virtual machine in a single virtual network, including blends of scale sets, availability sets, and machines . * GDPR forbids geofencing inside the 26-member European Union. The rationale is that geoblocking prevents member citizens from purchasing goods outside of their countries at fair prices - IT Pro Today *  Data Journalism Handbook explores new and innovative ways in which data is analysed, created and used in the context of journalism. * Flatiron Health is the third...

This Week I Learned - *  You can use Azure Site Recovery to move your single instance VM or VMs in an Availability Set into an Availability Zone, thereby achieving 99.99 percent uptime SLA . *  Azure continuously monitors for hardware that shows signs of degradation or potential failure. When these conditions are detected, Azure will attempt to live migrate your virtual machines (VMs). If live migration isn’t possible, Azure will automatically redeploy VMs to a healthy machine. *  There are cases where live migration isn’t possible, like on specialized computer hardware such as M-Series, G-Series, etc. or on legacy hardware, in which case the VMs would be redeployed to a new instance.  *  When Azure detects imminent hardware failure, VMs are proactively live migrated when possible. This should have minimal impact on your workloads and the customer experience is typically a freeze of a few seconds during the final phase. Subscribing to Scheduled Events allo...

What I liked about  Naveen Patnaik's biography by Ruben Banerjee is that it is well written & takes a balanced view - praising him without glossing over his shortcomings. It is engaging with interesting facts & trivia about the longest serving Chief Minister of Odisha who prefers to read out Odia speeches written in the Roman script When Naveen entered politics in Odisha, he was trying to reach out to the people of his native land whose rusticity he did not share. Yet, as the son of Odisha’s legendary politician, he had been anointed by fate and destiny as the desperate state’s only possible saviour. Fed up with the games played by discredited politicians, many Odias welcomed Naveen despite his lack of Odia. According to a 1994 law, written and spoken knowledge of Odia is a must for contesting Gram Panchayat elections. It was Naveen's luck that the knowledge of the local language wasn't mandatory for the state's highest elected position He has been c...