About OTC CatchUp
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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #100
Date: 08-10-2022
Duration: 9 hrs 48 mins
Topics Discussed
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We completed OTC CatchUps for 100 consecutive weeks 🥳
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Anil Harwani shared the github.com/esnet/iperf repository which is a measurement of TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth.
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Anil Harwani explained how a packet travels from the network card to application. "Path of a packet in the Linux kernel stack" explains it in-depth.
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Anil Harwani shared how DPDK (Data plane development kit) handles the networking in most mainframes.
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Anil Harwani showed us some of the lesser known Linux commands.
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lscpu
- lscpu gathers CPU architecture information sysfs, /proc/cpuinfo and any applicable architecture-specific libraries (e.g. Librtas on PowerPC). -
w
- w displays the information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. -
wall
- wall displays a message, or the contents of a file, or otherwise its standard input, on the terminals of all currently logged in users.
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Anil Harwani spoke about jumbo frames which makes transmission fasters as the frame size are bigger which in turn takes less time to process.
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Anil Harwani shared how a workaround in Linux Kernel was hurting modern AMD’s performance.
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Anil Harwani showed how
screen
command in Linux helps him in his workflow.-
screen
command in Linux provides the ability to launch and use multiple shell sessions from a single ssh session.
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Harsh Kapadia shared Missing semester by MIT which is a course to learn the basics of Linux and networking.
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We watched a funny video where an old finance minister of India talks about Tech and the Cloud.
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Sreekaran Srinath pointed out an issue with '/' at the end of the CatchUp summary page.
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Sreekaran Srinath, Darshan Rander, Pratik Thakare and Kartik Soneji voted, discussed, argued, and decided on contracting a multimillion-dollar corporation to deliver heat-sterilized dough and cheese discs with an industry-standard pipeline. Optimized the landing cost to area ratio of aforementioned discs.
Projects Showcased
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Harsh Kapadia showcased his "Socket Programming: Measuring RTT and Throughput of a network connection" where he is measuring RTT and throughput using Java for his college assignment.
Attendees
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Anil Harwani
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Harsh Tiwari
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Hrishikesh Yadav
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Hamza Sayyed
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Prathik Shetty
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Rashid Aziz
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Rishi Kewalya
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Rishi Setpal
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Suraj Chavan
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Vinayak Shukla
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Sachin Jangir
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