OTC CatchUp #119 Summary

Most of us presumed that the feature would be handled on the fly, on the client side — by picking up a few primary colors from the video.

However, Ramyak Mehra suggested that colors are pre-processed alongside other metadata when a video is being uploaded and that data is supplied to the client while streaming.

Find the talk abstract and other relevant links — OTC Talks #2

The talk covered interesting ideas about an e-mail relay, e-mail metadata, SPF, DKIM, a Zero Ops approach and the total cost of building an e-mail relay.

Omkar also demonstrated the application Dopemin - Firewall for your Email — that he along with 8 users (friends and family) have been using seamlessly for the past three years.

The project was implemented using AWS Lambda, Amazon SES, Amazon SNS, Cloud Functions for Firebase, Cloud Firestore and Authentication from Firebase, and the interface was built using Vue.js.

We discussed interesting problems around it like how scaling such applications is not a problem due to generous limits offered by services like AWS, but the abuse of such applications becomes a problem.

Relevant links

An example of how people share their PGP Public Key.

Anil explained why using the keys is based on need and context.

Concepts that were mentioned while explaining: