This Week I Learned - Week #232

This Week I Learned -

B-Series is a new Azure VM family that provides the lowest cost of any existing size with flexible CPU usage.

Map of Azure & AWS data centers

AWS Quick Start reference deployments, part of the AWS Architecture Center help you rapidly deploy fully functional software on the AWS Cloud, following AWS best practices for security and availability. An AWS CloudFormation template automates the deployment, and a deployment guide describes the architecture and implementation in detail. Quick Starts are modular and customizable; you can layer additional functionality on top or modify them for your own implementations.

JSON2Table can show JSON content as a HTML table and in treeview format.

json2html is an open source javascript library that uses JSON templates to convert JSON objects to HTML.

A Computer Science degree isn’t required for Google's software engineering or product manager roles.

Telugu ranks as the fifth-largest Indian language on Wikipedia with nearly 67,000 articles. It has been growing over the years since 2003, when the Telugu Wikipedia started.

* The majority of flu vaccines contain viruses which are already dead, so you can’t get the flu from them

Contrary to popular belief, stress does not influence a person’s chances of graying.

* According to Central Government statistics, one out of 89 children live with autism displaying symptoms that include poor eye contact, decreased social response, repetitive behaviours, lack of expected language and social development, and decreased non-verbal communication and gestures. While there is no cure for autism, known as a lifelong disorder, early intervention can improve the quality of life in these children, say medical experts - The Hindu

* In June, the RBI identified 12 major companies for insolvency proceedings, each owing over Rs 5,000 crores. Bhushan Steel, Electosteel Steel and Lanco Infratech headed the dirty dozen, owing a whopping Rs 1,75,000 crore (almost a quarter of all bad bank loans) - Swaminomics

* In the past three years, personal loans have grown at twice the rate of growth in personal disposable income, leading to a steady rise in household indebtedness. At the end of March this year, Indians owed Rs 25.2 lakh crore to banks and listed non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), up 65 per cent in the past three years - Rediff

* The Sardar Sarovar Dam has been inaugurated 56 years after its foundation was laid by then PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

* Backward Class (BC) communities are said to constitute about 50 per cent of the Telangana's population. According to sources, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wants to set up a Most Backward Classes (MBC) finance corporation with a fund of  Rs 1000 crore - Times of India

* "Unlike the French aristocracy, which believed that the natural state of man is idleness, I think passionate work is essential to happiness. Instead of detaching oneself from work, Krishna advises us to act desirelessly, which means not to seek personal credit or reward from one’s work. When I am absorbed in passionate work, I find that my ego tends to disappear. Passionate, self-forgetting work is of high quality because you are not distracted by the ego. This is my recipe for making a life, and it is also the secret of happiness" - Gurcharan Das

‘Life isn’t about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself’ - George Bernard Shaw

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