This Week I Learned - Week #263
This Week I Learned -
* Microsoft has open sourced Service Fabric with the MIT license to increase opportunities for customers to participate in the development and direction of the product. The release of Service Fabric runtime v6.2 and corresponding SDK includes the general availability of Java and .NET Core Reliable Services and Actors on Linux. Reliable Services and Reliable Actors are programming models to help developers build stateless and stateful microservices for new applications and for adding new microservices to existing applications.
* BrowserStack is a cross-browser and app testing platform started by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal, both IIT Bombay graduates in 2011. After six years, BrowserStack has four products being used by customers in 135 countries, including Walt Disney, Tesco, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb and Virgin Pulse. Their App Automate tool offers GPS location simulation
* Huawei is the world's third-largest smartphone manufacturer after Samsung and Apple
* Apple's 10th anniversary-edition iPhone X alone generated close to 35 percent of the total handset industry profits.
* AS/400 is a midrange server designed for small businesses and departments in large enterprises. It is now redesigned so that it will work well in distributed networks with Web applications and formally renamed the "IBM iSeries"
* Amazon has silently released a lite web browser app called Internet for Android devices (running Android 5.0 Marshmallow and above) that is touted to be "lighter than the competition". Amazon Kindle Lite is less than 2MB, works on slow networks, and occupies less space on your smartphone.
* Uber operates in 31 cities in India currently. India accounts for 10% of Uber rides globally & has a 35% share of the Indian taxi market.
* In technical audiences, there can sometimes be a difficult person: an ego that must prove itself as the best, a desire to be disruptive, or a hater of what you are saying. Mark Minasi shared his technique for dealing with that person – identify them while you are setting up before the presentation, and then go down to visit with them. Disarm the person by being friendly before the presentation - Aidan Finn
* In 1955, Juliette Morgan, a white librarian in America’s south, noticed Martin Luther King’s role in the epic Montgomery bus boycott and advised him to become a full-fledged Gandhian as he was naturally inclined in that direction. For both Gandhi and King, non-violence was never a clever political “tactic”, but an unshakeable moral conviction that guardrailed them all their lives. Non-violence was an absolute moral force, and non-negotiable to the last, for both Gandhi and King. By weaponising satyagraha, or truth force, Gandhi made debate the only available mode for social interaction. Gandhi extended non-violence to verbal acts too because, he believed, angry voices conceal a weak argument and an unwillingness to communicate - Times of India Blogs
* Infosys key stats:
- Total headcount at the end of March 31, 2018 - 2,04,107
- Attrition - 16.6%
- High-performers attrition - 9.4%
- Utilisation rate (excluding trainees) - 84.7%
* Microsoft has open sourced Service Fabric with the MIT license to increase opportunities for customers to participate in the development and direction of the product. The release of Service Fabric runtime v6.2 and corresponding SDK includes the general availability of Java and .NET Core Reliable Services and Actors on Linux. Reliable Services and Reliable Actors are programming models to help developers build stateless and stateful microservices for new applications and for adding new microservices to existing applications.
* BrowserStack is a cross-browser and app testing platform started by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal, both IIT Bombay graduates in 2011. After six years, BrowserStack has four products being used by customers in 135 countries, including Walt Disney, Tesco, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb and Virgin Pulse. Their App Automate tool offers GPS location simulation
* Huawei is the world's third-largest smartphone manufacturer after Samsung and Apple
* Apple's 10th anniversary-edition iPhone X alone generated close to 35 percent of the total handset industry profits.
* AS/400 is a midrange server designed for small businesses and departments in large enterprises. It is now redesigned so that it will work well in distributed networks with Web applications and formally renamed the "IBM iSeries"
* Amazon has silently released a lite web browser app called Internet for Android devices (running Android 5.0 Marshmallow and above) that is touted to be "lighter than the competition". Amazon Kindle Lite is less than 2MB, works on slow networks, and occupies less space on your smartphone.
* Uber operates in 31 cities in India currently. India accounts for 10% of Uber rides globally & has a 35% share of the Indian taxi market.
* In technical audiences, there can sometimes be a difficult person: an ego that must prove itself as the best, a desire to be disruptive, or a hater of what you are saying. Mark Minasi shared his technique for dealing with that person – identify them while you are setting up before the presentation, and then go down to visit with them. Disarm the person by being friendly before the presentation - Aidan Finn
* In 1955, Juliette Morgan, a white librarian in America’s south, noticed Martin Luther King’s role in the epic Montgomery bus boycott and advised him to become a full-fledged Gandhian as he was naturally inclined in that direction. For both Gandhi and King, non-violence was never a clever political “tactic”, but an unshakeable moral conviction that guardrailed them all their lives. Non-violence was an absolute moral force, and non-negotiable to the last, for both Gandhi and King. By weaponising satyagraha, or truth force, Gandhi made debate the only available mode for social interaction. Gandhi extended non-violence to verbal acts too because, he believed, angry voices conceal a weak argument and an unwillingness to communicate - Times of India Blogs
* Infosys key stats:
- Total headcount at the end of March 31, 2018 - 2,04,107
- Attrition - 16.6%
- High-performers attrition - 9.4%
- Utilisation rate (excluding trainees) - 84.7%
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