Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned -  *  Azure Cognitive Services Translator can transliterate /converts text in one language from one script to another script. * Gmail protects your email by making sure messages you send and receive are authenticated. Unauthenticated messages might be sent to spam. Gmail authenticates messages with SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance.  * SPF specifies which hosts are allowed to send messages from a given domain by creating an SPF record. DKIM allows the sender to electronically sign legitimate emails in a way that can be verified by recipients using a public-key. DMARC helps mail administrators prevent hackers and other attackers from spoofing their organization and domain. Spoofing is a type of attack in which the From address of an email message is forged. A spoofed message appears to be from the impersonated organization or domain. * ...

The 90-minute Pluralsight course SAP on Azure: The Big Picture provides a "just enough" backgrounder on SAP & options for hosting SAP workloads on major cloud providers, mainly Azure. My paraphrased notes -  Four common options with major cloud providers: HEC or HANA Enterprise Cloud is a bundled managed service from SAP covering SAP application management, infrastructure services & security services AWS is the first public cloud provider in the market to offer SAP in cloud Google Cloud Azure  AWS, Azure & Google Cloud can run the following SAP products: 1. SAP S/4 HANA – SAP HANA 2. SAP BW / SAP Hybris 3. SAP Business Suite / SAP Business One 4. SAP NetWeaver In addition to the above products, Azure can also run SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, so you can get that SAP contract and still run your SAP instance on Azure.  SAP solutions on Azure can run on a variety of database such as: HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, or PaaS databases like Azure SQL, ...

Excerpts & paraphrased notes from the book  Oracle Autonomous Database for Dummies  (PDF, 83 pages) - An autonomous database is a cloud database that uses ML to eliminate the human labor associated with database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks.  It combines the dynamic agility of  the cloud with the intelligent responsiveness of applied, adaptive machine learning (ML).  The design goal is to make the database intelligent and self-reliant so as to minimize or eliminate human labor  — and associated human error  — and ensure data safety and optimal performance. The core attributes of Autonomous Database  — self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing . At startup, it automatically establishes a triple-mirrored scale-out configuration in one regional cloud data center, with an optional full standby copy in another region. By applying software updates in a rolling fashion across nodes of the cluster, it k...