OTC CatchUp #161 Summary

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OTC CatchUp #161

Date: 09-12-2023

Duration: 1 hr 40 mins

Topics Discussed

Chirag Nayyar told us that he has been gearing up to give four AWS and GCP certifications.
Harsh Kapadia shared videos on Google Gemini AI.
- Google’s Gemini just made GPT-4 look like a baby’s toy?
- The Gemini Lie
- AWS re:Invent 2023
- Chirag Nayyar and Ishan Sharma talked about the new AWS services and features announced at AWS re:Invent 2023.
- 5 crazy new AWS services just launched
- Ishan was impressed by Amazon S3 Express One Zone Storage Class, which guarantees blazing object retrieval speeds, but Chirag said that it is too expensive.
- Chirag was impressed by Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), which is an AWS service of Red Hat OpenShift, a platform powered by Kubernetes to build, modernize and deploy applications at scale.
  - Chirag added that Digital Native Businesses (DNBs) will use ROSA.
Chirag Nayyar and Ishan Sharma recommended reading ByteByteGo’s blog and watching ByteByteGo’s YouTube Videos as well.
- Ishan particularly liked their blog on Why the Internet Is Both Robust and Fragile which talked about BGP being the cause of the 2021 Facebook outage and Harsh Kapadia shared articles on the 2021 Facebook outage.
Harsh Kapadia shared a few miscellaneous videos.
Databases
- Chirag Nayyar told us that he holds PostgreSQL in very high regards in terms of relational databases and would recommend people to use it.
- He also mentioned how Oracle Database is an industry standard due to reliability and security layers albeit pretty costly.
- Chirag shared Spanner, TrueTime and the CAP Theorem.
Aditya Oberai shared Is DevRel Just A Fad?

Projects Showcased

Darshan Soni and Om Pawaskar showcased a Java and MySQL employee management portal.

Attendees

Aditya Oberai
Chirag Nayyar
Darshit Suratwala
Dheeraj Lalwani
Harsh Kapadia
Ishan Sharma
Mohit Gangwani
Swapnil Borkar
Wilfred Almeida
Anil Harwani
Atharva Yadav
Bhavesh Kukreja
Kartik Patel
Om Pawaskar
Raghav Rathi
Sarvesh Yogi
Soni Darshan

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