OTC CatchUp #140 Summary

Sejal Jain talked about her conversion from an intern to a full-time employee at Zomato and shared her experience working with PHP, Go, MySQL and DynamoDB.

Viranchee L talked about his experience building security features using C, C++ and Python as an intern at Qualcomm.

Harsh Kapadia talked about how Kartik Soneji improved the GitHub Actions workflow of the OTC CatchUp GitHub repository that sends reminder and joining Tweets and Telegram messages for OTC CatchUp sessions.

Jaden Furtado talked about how his team qualified for the second round of a CTF CISS 2022.

Preet Parekh talked about an issue where an update query (using Painless) to around 10 million Elasticsearch documents was taking around eight minutes to reflect to the end user!

Wilfred Almeida talked about how some ISPs use the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) protocol to authenticate users.

Harsh Kapadia talked about how Captive Portals are used to display WiFi login screens when a user logs into a WiFi network for the first time.

Wilfred Almeida talked about his issues with transactions on Supabase.

Wilfred Almeida asked whether anyone had used Proxmox, a Virtualization management software like VMware, as he was facing issues with SeaBIOS and UEFI.

Kubernetes

Harsh Kapadia talked about how a lot of people expressed their disdain for the lack of empathy in a Tweet thread by Dukaan’s CEO marketing a product by boasting about laying off employees and for dismissing concerns for laid off employees in a very offhand way.

Harsh Kapadia talked about his experimentation with Vim plugins. He started using vim-plug as his plugin manager and the EditorConfig and the vim-shfmt plugins.

Harsh Kapadia talked about how the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of a server motherboard gets its own IP and has its own web interface to help configure the motherboard (turning power on or off, updating BIOS and board firmware, getting a GUI for the machine, etc.) and how he used ipmitool to re-gain lost access to the BMC by re-configuring a password for the default admin user.

Harsh Kapadia talked about his Networking experiment at his internship at AMD, where he had to configure two servers and a Mellanox SN2100 Switch to be able to achieve a throughput of 100 Gbps over Ethernet.

We talked a little about InfiniBand as well, which uses the concept of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to speed up Networking. It is an alternative to Ethernet.

Siddharth Kaduskar showcased his attendance manager project that he built using Express.js and React.js. He is using NanoNets for OCR.

Rishi Setpal shared his React.js projects.