This Week I Learned -
* ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform web platform from the .NET team. It has similar concepts as previous versions of ASP.NET but it is not binary compatible - David Fowler's presentation deck
* More options to host containerized apps on Azure:
* Azure Subscription design strategies:
- Workload separation strategy
- Application category strategy
- Functional strategy - organizes subscriptions and accounts along functional lines like finance, sales, or IT support.
- Business unit strategy
- Geographic strategy
- Mix subscription strategies
* AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command line tool to help you lift and shift applications that run in your on-premises data centers or on virtual machines, so that they run in containers that are managed by Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS App Runner. App2Container is offered at no additional charge. You are charged only when you use other AWS services to run your containerized application. You can use App2Container to generate container images for one or more applications running on Windows or Linux servers that are compatible with the Open Containers Initiative (OCI). This includes commercial off-the-shelf applications (COTs). App2Container does not need source code for the application to containerize it.
* Historically, AWS used a payer and linked account structure, where a payer account was used to pay the bills for any linked accounts. With the introduction of AWS Organizations, this payer account—now known as the Master account—has a significant role in the security of your AWS accounts.
* When migrating your databases, you can automate the migration of your database schema and data using the AWS Schema Conversation Tool and AWS Database Migration Service. Babelfish allows Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to understand the SQL Server wire protocol. It allows you to migrate your SQL Server applications to PostgreSQL cheaper, faster, and with less risks involved with such change. When adopting Babelfish, you save on licensing costs of using SQL Server. Amazon Aurora provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost.
* The Hybrid Cloud Architecture Heatmap is a multi-dimensional matrix that takes application workloads, target locations, and deliver/service management, and provides a basis for cloud computing architectural designs that align with business drivers and requirements. The heatmap defines a taxonomy of “aspects” and “domains” that are used to develop architectural reference solutions or patterns for specific design requirements and constraints.
* Mirantis offers both enterprise Swarm and Kubernetes, and can help you decide which is best for you. Their GUI can move nodes from one orchestrator to another.
* Surprising facts about Google’s early days:
- Page and Brin ‘found each other obnoxious’ at first when they met at Stanford
- Google started as a PhD project
- Google’s first iteration was named “BackRub” in 1995. In 1997, they renamed their search engine Google, “a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros” .
- Page and Brin begged professors for cash
- Investing in Google paid off for two professors. The early investments of David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim of $100,000 each in Google helped them turn into multibillionaires.
- The first Google headquarters was in a garage, part of a house owned by Susan Wojcicki, who later became a Google senior VP and is now the CEO of YouTube.
- Warren Buffett inspired their IPO letter to shareholders
* Hugo is a static site generator written in Go
* Adobe has now brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web. WebAssembly and its C++ toolchain Emscripten have been the key to unlocking Photoshop's ability to come to the web, as it meant that Adobe would not have to start from scratch, but could leverage their existing Photoshop codebase. WebAssembly is a portable binary instruction set shipping in all browsers that was designed as a compilation target for programming languages. This means that applications such as Photoshop that are written in C++ can be ported directly to the web without requiring a rewrite in JavaScript.
* Alt-Tab is a Windows keyboard shortcut (KBSC) that cycles through open windows; in recent versions, it treats each open Edge tab as a window in this respect. Which Edge tabs are shown depends on the selection at Settings ⚙ > System > Multi-tasking > Alt + Tab.
* Tesla Inc. has joined an elite group of companies with market values of at least $1 trillion. It is the second fastest company ever to reach this mark, taking just over 11 years since its public debut in June 2010. Facebook Inc. did it faster, although its market capitalization is now below $1 trillion as the stock has sold off over the past two months. The world's richest person, Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes $36 billion in a day.
* Alibaba has lost $344 billion in market capitalization, the world's biggest wipeout.
* Babies are born with pieces of cartilage that will eventually become the bony kneecap, or patella, that adults have. Like bone, cartilage gives structure where it's needed in the body, such as the nose, ears, and joints. But cartilage is softer and more flexible than bone.
* Palm oil is the most consumed edible oil. Palm oil and its derivatives can appear under many names, including: Vegetable Oil, Vegetable Fat, Palm Kernel, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Fruit Oil, Palmate, Palmitate, Palmolein, Glyceryl, Stearate, Stearic Acid, Elaeis Guineensis, Palmitic Acid, Palm Stearine, Palmitoyl Oxostearamide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Lauryl Lactylate/Sulphate, Hydrated Palm Glycerides, Etyl Palmitate, Octyl Palmitate, Palmityl Alcohol. According to World Wildlife Fund, Palm oil is by far the most efficient vegetable oil to grow as it takes less land to produce than other vegetable oils. While palm oil is the most efficient source of vegetable oil, its rapid expansion threatens some of the planet’s most important and sensitive habitats.
* Chinese surnames are given first for names written in Chinese, which is the opposite of the Western name order where surnames come last. Wang, Li and Zhang are common Chinese surnames.
* India makes up 24.4% of Kaggle data scientists - Insights from Kaggle’s annual user survey focused on working data scientists, State of Machine Learning and Data Science 2021
* According to the Charaka tradition, there existed six schools of medicine, founded by the disciples of the sage Punarvasu Ātreya, a renowned scholar of Ayurveda. Each of his disciples, Agnivesha, Bhela, Jatūkarna, Parāshara, Hārīta, and Kshārapāni, composed a Samhitā. Of all the six, the one composed by Agnivesa was most revered. Charaka later on, taking cues from Agnivesa Samhita, produced the now renowned work Charaka Samhita around 300 B.C. which survived and has been handed down to us in the form of Bower Manuscript dated around 4th century.
* The Bower Manuscript is a collection of seven fragmentary Sanskrit treatises found buried in a Buddhist memorial stupa near Kucha, northwestern China. Written in early Gupta script (late Brahmi) on birch bark, it is variously dated in 5th to early 6th century. The Bower manuscript includes the oldest dated fragments of an Indian medical text, the Navanitaka.The discovery of the Bower Manuscript, its antiquity, and its decipherment by Hoernle triggered "enormous excitement" in the 1890s. The Bower Manuscript is named after its accidental purchaser Hamilton Bower, a British Army Lieutenant.
* "Google named their first building Building 40, so that people would think they were already huge." - Silicon Valley, S4 E7
* Phone - "the thing that tracks your movement and every interaction you have...Literally, your fingerprint" - Gilfoyle, Silicon Valley, S4 E4
* 'Progress means holding onto the core values and letting go of the frills, accoutrements, and symbolism.' - R. Gopalakrishnan, A Comma in a Sentence
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