OTC CatchUp #104 Summary

Article links for "Twisted" and the first installment:

Ramyak Mehra and Pranav Dani talked about the correlation between cores and threads. For instance, a 4-core 8-thread processor has 4 physical cores and each core can run 2 threads in parallel.

We discussed the difference between Concurrency and Parallelism and why using them interchangeably is wrong.

Ramyak Mehra shared a video about Async I/O in Depth

Meltdown is patched in all the major OS.

He talked about how the tweet and the poster seemed clickbait-ey to some since it did not elaborate on its functionality, as it only talked about how it might make someone feel. (Safer in this case)

Aditya Oberai suggested that marketing a product in this way isn’t wrong, since one isn’t selling the product, but the impact it creates.

Twitter recently underwent many changes in leadership and as a result, many employees were laid off.

Ashwin Kumar Uppala and Tushar Nankani shared layoffs.fyi as a resource to find out about layoffs in tech companies.

Decrease in business could be a potential reason for layoffs since it results in a decrease in revenue.

Sreekaran Srinath talked about how stock prices for companies were decreasing in value.

MS Teams is catered towards enterprises with its tight integration with Office365 tools and provides a relatively better experience in terms of handling bandwidth at even lower tiers.

Layoffs might hurt less when you are early in your career without many dependencies.

Aditya Oberai talked about the status of an individual contributor that is allowed by startups which helps with a personal brand.

Vatsal Patel talked about the importance of feedback from seniors and how it might be lacking in startups.

When upper management isn’t there to guide, one could also work at their own pace and reduce bureaucracy.

A company should be selected after weighing all the pros and cons.

Ramyak Mehra shared HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool to better benchmark server in a range of load on it.

Ramyak Mehra shared that he would like to give a talk about how to approach a new codebase.

Twitter gives lower engagement for a new user with fewer/no followers.

Whereas, TikTok boosts their engagements to a great extent for new users and creators.

Vatsal Patel shared some strategies and insisted on getting the theory right.

Vatsal Patel shared a resource on finding patterns in coding problems.

Sreekaran Srinath insisted to keep having fun in the process and focusing on problem-solving.

Tushar Nankani pointed out how we can leverage Tech Twitter and what we see on our "feed" is not the Tech Twitter. He mentioned that he uses Twitter in chronological order of the specific people for whom the notifications are turned on. "Doesn’t let the algorithm fool you."

Aditya Oberai and Tushar Nankani shared a few recommendations for whom the notifications should be turned on:

Project Demo: Banana Speak

GitHub Repo