This Week I Learned -
* App containerization is a new (preview) feature of Azure Migrate that helps you containerize and migrate applications to Azure Kubernetes Service. The standalone App Containerization tool offers a no-code, point-and-containerize approach to help you package applications running on servers into a container image and helps you deploy the containerized application to Azure Kubernetes Service. The app servers hosting the app could be virtual machines or physical servers running in your on-premises datacenter, virtual machines running in Azure or any other cloud.
* Scenarios in which containerization may not be the best choice for your application. Generally, these fall into three buckets:
- Platform dependencies, e.g., if your application only runs on a mainframe.
- Other hardware dependencies, for example, if your application directly manipulates hardware components (e.g. IoT devices).
- Client applications. Containers really target server-side applications; graphics libraries and the like are typically not found on servers built to support containers.
* This Google Cloud whitepaper shows how to re-architect your applications to a cloud-native paradigm that allows you to accelerate delivery of new features even as you grow your teams, while also improving software quality and achieving higher levels of stability and availability.
* Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) is a first party, fully managed solution supported by Google Cloud and VMware cloud verified. With GCVE customers receive a quickly provisioned private cloud (within approximately 30 minutes) leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation, which includes vSphere (vCenter Server, ESXi), vSAN, and NSX-T. Also included with GCVE is VMware HCX, allowing customers to migrate their workloads from on-premises as far back as vSphere 6.0 without the need to re-platform. VMware HCX is an all-in-one workload mobility solution providing customers native capabilities such as site pairing, network extension, WAN optimization, and several migration types. VMware HCX is the Swiss Army knife of workload mobility!
* Super apps serve as hosts to other apps that run within them: the so-called mini apps. Popular super apps are WeChat by Tencent, Alipay by Ant Group (an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group), the app of the search engine Baidu, as well as ByteDance's Douyin, which you might know as TikTok. The first three are commonly also referred to as BAT, derived from B(aidu)A(libaba)T(encent). Mini apps are small (commonly less than 4MB) apps that require a super app to run. The runtime of a mini app is a WebView in the super app, not the underlying operating system, which makes mini apps cross platform.
* CC Search is a tool (from Creative Commons, a nonprofit) that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
* To shut down a Windows computer in one hour. Open a command prompt and run:
shutdown -s -t 3600
* Of the five heads under which source of income falls, there cannot be a loss from salary and income from other sources. Loss under one head has to be adjusted against any gain under the same head. This is known as Inter-Source Adjustment (ISA). For instance, if you have two businesses, one is making a loss and the other is profit-making; then the loss from the first one can be set-off against profit from the second one. Similarly, if you have two house properties, one self occupied and the other on rent. Loss from the first property can be adjusted against the income from the second property. Losses under capital gains cannot be set-off with income from any other head and loss from business cannot be set off against salary income. Any loss that cannot be set-off against the same or other heads because of inadequacy of income may be carried forward to the subsequent year. Such a carry-forward exercise can be done for eight years. After eight years, if the loss has still not been adjusted fully, it has to be written off. Current Year Loss Adjustment (CYLA) is the adjustment of loss incurred this year, from one source, to be adjusted against the profits earned in another source this year. Brought Forward Loss Adjustment (BFLA) is the loss which is brought forward from the previous years to adjust against profits in the current year. - Value Research
* The 10th edition of Hurun Global Rich List 2021 names 10 billionaires from Hyderabad with a cumulative wealth of Rs 1,65,900 crore ($22.6 billion). Most of these billionaires have stakes in pharmaceutical companies like Divi’s Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma, Hetero Drugs, Dr. Reddy’s, MSN Laboratories and Natco Pharma.
* Already known as the bulk drug capital of India, Hyderabad witnessed manufacturing of lifesaving Covid-19 drugs like Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine and Favipiravir by some of the top pharma companies based here. It accounts for 40 per cent of the total Indian bulk drugs and 50 per cent of the bulk drug exports. Hyderabad has the largest US FDA approved vaccine facilities. Hyderabad manufactures more than two billion doses of vaccines every year, which is one-third of the global vaccine output. Four of the six companies developing Covid vaccines in India are based in Hyderabad. Covaxin is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV). This indigenous, inactivated vaccine is manufactured in Bharat Biotech's BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3) bio-containment facility at Genome Valley here. Set up in 1999, Genome Valley is India's first organised cluster for life sciences R&D activities spread across 600 square kilometers. Bharat Biotech has so far developed vaccines for H1N1, Rotavirus, Japanese Encephalitis, Rabies, Chikungunya, Zika and the world's first conjugated vaccine for Typhoid. It has delivered more than four billion doses of vaccines worldwide. It is also the largest Rabies vaccine manufacturer in the world. - ET
* The Guzerá or Guzerat is a Brazilian breed of domestic cattle
* The American Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle. It was bred in the US from 1885 from Gir, Guzerá and Nelore cattle stock originating in India
* The Food Waste Index Report 2021, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partner organization WRAP, said that around 931 million tonnes of food waste was generated in 2019, sixty-one per cent of which came from households, 26 per cent from food service and 13 per cent from retail. This suggests that 17 per cent of total global food production may be wasted. “Let us all shop carefully, cook creatively and make wasting food anywhere socially unacceptable while we strive to provide healthy, sustainable diets to all,” Executive Director of the UNEP Inger Andersen said. - ET
* Science fact I learnt from the movies - Thalassemia if not apparent during childhood, can lay dormant until midlife or later. Thalassemia is a serious illness that can lead to life-threatening complications when left untreated or undertreated.
* One way to add notes in IMDB about a movie you've watched is to create a list and then add notes for each movie title
* In the year 2000 Dr. Songtao Shi discovered that teeth, specifically dental pulp contained stem cells.
* Whitney Wolfe Herd, co-founder of Tinder (2013) and founder of Bumble (2014) is the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.
* Mary Anderson is in the Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing the windshield wiper.
* 20-year-old Mary Shelley won a bet with her future husband Percy Shelley and his friend Lord Byron to write a horror story: she created Frankenstein, the story of a Genevan scientist who created artificial life – and regretted it for the rest of his days. Shelley created more than she knew: her story is not just considered to be the first science-fiction novel, but has spawned an army of monstrous descendants. Ever since Shelley set the trend, other writers have enthusiastically explored quasi-human creations, all the better to explore what makes us human. Creatures who are not quite like us can enhance our understanding of ourselves, even if the results aren't always pretty. - BBC
* Seuss wrote and illustrated more than 60 books, which have sold over 600 million copies. His most famous, The Cat in the Hat (1957), reveals many of his signature flourishes: a delight in words for their own sake, creating ever more surreal combinations through surprising rhymes; drawings of fantastical figures and complicated inventions; and a questioning of the values and conventions of adults. The surreal rhyming verse and strange creatures that populated his children’s books – whales with long eyelashes; goats joined at the beard; many-legged cows – find their roots in his World War Two propaganda cartoons. A supporter of the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans, Seuss used offensive stereotypes to caricature the Japanese in his cartoons, leading to accusations that he was racist. Seuss later partially apologised for the cartoons and admitted that "they’re full of many snap judgements that every political cartoonist has to make". Yertle the Turtle was modelled on the rise of Hitler, The Sneetches was inspired by Seuss' opposition to anti-Semitism - BBC
Cow with many udders representing conquered European nations being milked by Hitler
* "I’m subversive as hell! I’ve always had a mistrust of adults… The Cat in the Hat is a revolt against authority" – Theodor Seuss Geisel
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