OTC CatchUp #143 Summary

We discussed how good OTC MeetUp #3 was! People enjoyed the talks and all the conversations! We want to thank all the people who attended, our speakers and our partners!

Krishana Dave and Somya Barwa asked about JP Morgan & Chase's reduction in hiring and Deutsche Bank's increase in hiring.

Laptop restrictions and releases in India

Harsh Kapadia asked about how people have combatted burning out at their workplace and Tushar Nankani talked about how he worked a lot initially and then used the time afterwards to interact with people and learn from them. He participated in more activities and started looking at things broadly.

We touched upon a distributed agreement protocol called Paxos.

Real-time collaboration in text editors

Harsh Kapadia explained the basics of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Nodes Per Socket (NPS) and how he had to configure that in BIOS settings for Network throughput measurements.

Anil Harwani talked about how it is important to know latency numbers for various operations on the Operating System level and told us to go through Latency numbers every programmer should know.

Harsh Kapadia shared a video of someone hacking a game by making modifications to it in-memory: I Hacked a Game from my Childhood (for REVENGE)

Harsh Kapadia told Nikshita Karkera the importance attending meetups (a good way to learn people’s experiences and the industry) and how it becomes easier to interact with new people after doing it a few times.