This Week I Learned - Week #250

This Week I Learned -

Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Azure Backup provides built-in security features that can protect your backup data from ransomware, and makes it easy to restore your data from Azure.

Starting in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor on Google for mobile searches.

Instead of including the API key (or placeholder) in the code that you might be sharing through CodePen, prompt the end-user of the pen for their API key at runtime. Then, store whatever key they supply into local HTML5 storage so they don’t have to enter it over and over again.

Google rewards volunteers to its User Experience Research with a small thank-you gift like a gift card or a donation to their favorite charity.

New channels on YouTube will need to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months to be eligible for ads.

NetGalley & Edelweiss are sites where book industry professionals and critics can get digital copies of books before they’re published.

"30% of work time for self development" is a perk offered at WiproDigital

* Digital payments account for over 60 percent of total transactions on Amazon India. Amazon Pay wallet accounted for 48 percent of all digital transactions - Economic Times

* Third party vendors building Android apps for official bodies have access to private data of citizens. m-Wallet is an Android mobile app developed for the Transport Department of the Govt. of Telangana by Radikal TribeTelangana Traffic Police & Telangana E-Challan Android apps have been developed by Mother Technologies Project Ventures which currently doesn't have a website of its own!

* "Losing doesn't hurt as much as the fear of losing" - P Gopichand

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