This Week I Learned -
* Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. It provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
* TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.
* Children and youth today are surrounded by artificial intelligence (AI) in their everyday lives – from social media to smart speakers and toys, video games, and even education technology. The AI for Children Toolkit is designed to help companies develop trustworthy products and to help parents, guardians, and others responsibly buy and safely use AI products.
* Azure Service Bus Deep Dive [YouTube]
* WordPress multisite feature allows admins to save time by concurrently managing several web resources from one place. It enables a single administrator to work with multiple sites through one WordPress installation, that’s from one dashboard. In other words, multisite represents a network of WordPress sites that are similar in function. With multisite, all the plugins and themes are updated from one centralized location. A Super Admin creates users, passwords, and user roles for all the sites, while each site admin grants access to these users on an individual basis. All websites within a multisite network share the same domain name. Reuters Blogs leverages the WordPress Multisite feature. If you have a number of websites that are very much alike in their features and structure, go for WordPress multisite feature.
* Is security is a top priority, avoid going down the multisite path. A security hole in the main WordPress installation will open the backdoor to all of the sites within the network. Some plugins don’t work with the WordPress multisite feature.
* As society becomes ever more digital, all sorts of new resources keep emerging. For instance, John Deere tractors these days come equipped with geolocation and wireless networking. That’s great for helping farmers log which fields they’ve worked. It also lets Ukrainian farmers track machines that have been stolen by the military and transported across Russia.
* Netflix's market cap has dropped below the $100 billion mark and is currently the 146th largest company in the world with a total valuation of about $97 billion.
* There were 100 million non-voters in the US 2016 General Election - Fahrenheit 11/9
* At 15, Venus Williams signed a contract with Reebok for $12 million. Venus at age 41 has won Wimbledon 5 times. She was the first African American woman in the Open era to be ranked number one in the world. Serena at age 40 is a 23-time Grand Slam Champion. She is considered to be the greatest player of the sport. Their father Richard Williams taught himself how to play the game in part by watching instructional videos. He began coaching Venus and Serena at public courts in Los Angeles when they were in elementary school.
* Bananas are always bent because of a phenomenon known as negative geotropism. Instead of growing towards the ground because of gravity, bananas turn up towards the sun, defying gravity to give them their familiar curved shape.
* Maturity can be described as a range of behaviors and abilities that demonstrate emotion and intellectual capacity. These characteristics can include ability to learn from mistakes, take accountability for actions, and appreciate the reality of the present while also planning for the future. One of the more concrete elements of maturity is the evolving brain. While the brain stops growing in the early- to mid-twenties, emotional and psychological development continues throughout a person’s life. The ability to balance responsibility with fun, immediate desires with long-term needs, and other seemingly conflicting priorities is a trait that may only begin to be appreciated and fully understood with age and as independence and life experiences broaden. - Go Ask Alice!
* Every year on January 1, the copyright of a number of creative works expires and they enter the public domain in India and in other countries of the world. In case the work was published after the author’s death, it will only come out of copyright after 60 years from the date of publication.
* TCS has hired over 1.03 lakh #employees in FY22, adding over a third in the last three months alone. Its employee base stands at nearly 6 lakh now.
* As per a new rule introduced in 2020, withdrawals of over Rs 20 lakh from PPF can be slapped with TDS of 2-5% if the individual has not filed tax return in the past three years.
* “Every company is now a software company” - Satya Nadella, 2019
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