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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 #153
Date: 14-10-2023
Duration: 2 hrs 58 mins
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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Pankaj Jaiswal talked about using RASA chatbots.
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Pankaj shared his article on Why Rasa is the Superior Choice for Creating Custom Chatbots
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Harsh Kapadia talked about how he came to know that apart from Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs) also exist and they combine visuals with some textual input to provide an output.
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We talked about how a front end client app might slow down if a lot of API calls are made at the same time or if a lot of them are cascaded together.
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It was suggested that APIs should return just the required amount of data, so that once the client scales, it doesn’t fetch more data than required.
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In the same vein of talking about improving performance, we also had a discussion on efficient querying practices in SQL.
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We discussed where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) lie in applications.
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Harsh Kapadia explained that it is a middle layer (an interface) between the front end and the back end, but is implemented on the back end and consumed on the front end.
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Darshan Rander rightly pointed out that it is incorrect to assume that APIs are always talked about in the context of the Web (as Harsh assumed). He said that every system has an API that some other system can use. For example, printing to the screen in C, Python or any other programming language calls internal APIs (functions) that in return make system calls/syscalls in Linux (which are exposed to the user as APIs) to actually print to the screen.
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Assembly Language
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Aditya Oberai talked about Appwrite's rebranding.
Attendees
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Akhil Sahu
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Anil Harwani
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Bhavesh Kukreja
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Dhawal Abhonkar
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Eshaan Vaswani
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Jash Agrawal
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Krishana Dave
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Mahesh Patel
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Mohammad Ashfaq
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Pankaj Jaiswal
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Raghav Rathi
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Sanket Dalvi
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Satyam Patil
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Vedant Pal
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