This Week I Learned -
* Google Cloud Functions Gen2 supports larger instances (16GB, 4CPU), longer processing times (60mins!) and 90+ event sources! Functions are powered by CloudRun.
* Template for a well-architected assessment report
* Being multicloud fluent & understanding the strengths and tradeoffs of different cloud providers can help you make the best choice of services and architectures for new projects.
* Skills are like apps for Alexa. They enable customers to easily interact with your content, devices, and services with their voice, the most natural user interface.
* Terraform Course - From Beginner to Pro
* When implementing the actual functionality of the API, the choices are endless. You can implement on Oracle Kubernetes Engine or Helidon or have custom code running and Compute or create modern serverless APIs using Oracle Functions or work against the Autonomous Database and Oracle REST Data Services.
* Oracle REST Data Services Best Practices. ORDS is the REST API technology for the Oracle Database.
* Money is not the only thing important in a job. There is also:
- Culture
- Meaning
- Opportunities for growth
* The regular pickled cucumbers that Americans eat in huge amounts, especially in hamburgers, increasingly come from India. India is now the world’s largest exporter of gherkins or cornichons, as the small pickled cucumbers are called. It earned $223 million in 2020-21 from exports of 223,000 tonnes of them, both fresh and pickled.
* In a cloud kitchen’s P&L statement, 10% is rental, 7% is utilities, 15% is manpower, and aggregators such as Swiggy and Zomato will charge 25%. Food will be 30% &5% is packaging.
* Majuli in Assam is the world's largest river island. Majuli means land in the midst of two rivers. The island is formed by the Brahmaputra river in the south and the Kherkutia Xuti, an anabranch of the Brahmaputra, joined by the Subansiri River in the north. In 2016 it became the first island to be made a district in India.
* Umananda in Assam is the smallest river island in the world.
* The Rs 950-crore fodder scam relates to fraudulent withdrawal of public funds from government treasuries in various districts of undivided Bihar. The fodder scam came to light in January 1996 after a raid at the Animal Husbandry Department. The CBI named Lalu Prasad as an accused in June 1997. Of the original 170 accused in the case, 55 have died, seven have become government witnesses, two have accepted the charges against them and six are absconding. The RJD supremo, Prasad who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and slapped with a total fine of Rs 60 lakh, has secured bail in the four cases related to Dumka, Deoghar and Chaibasa treasuries.
* Back in 1992, Harshad Mehta was the big bull, but Radhakishan Damani, now known as the founder of DMart stores, was the big bear. Mehta and Damani kept betting in opposite positions. When the stock markets crashed after the Harshad Mehta scam got out, Damani cashed in as he was on the shorting side of the market. Today Damani is the 98th richest man in the world.
* Taxes are the price for civilisation
* In the U.S., about 45 per cent of the population pays taxes.
* Those opting for the new regime will have to forego most of the (approximately 70) tax exemptions and deductions that are available under the old regime. Only individuals having no business income in a financial year are eligible to choose between both the tax regimes every year. However, those having business income, once they have opted for the new tax regime, cannot choose between both the tax regimes every financial year.
* TataNeu is Tata Digital’s superapp.
* One of the reasons why RBI will be creating an alternative to National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in the form of New Umbrella Entity (NUE) is the system risk.
* PhonePe commands a market share of around 46% on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the country’s most popular digital-payments platform [PDF], with 350 million customers while the active customer base is around 120 million-150 million. Earlier, all of PhonePe’s business was handled by one bank, Yes Bank. When the bank went down for a few days, 40% of the UPI payments failed and PhonePe had to later rope in other banks to run its business. Second-placed third-party application provider (TPAP) Google Pay has a 33%-36% share. Paytm was the leading mobile payments app till UPI gained popularity.
* The average order value on the BigBasket app is INR1,500 while on BB Daily it is INR110.
* The GHMC owns 660 vehicles which include a Fortuner, 25 Innovas, 24 Scorpios, 60 vehicles such as Boleros and LMVs.
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