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OTC CatchUp #167

Date: 20-01-2024

Duration: 5 hrs 20 mins

Topics Discussed

  • General Introduction.

  • We discussed coding practices and the "correct way" to write code.

    • Dheeraj Lalwani suggested checking Uber’s Go Style Guide.

    • Anil Gohan talked about how one should try to employ second-order thinking to write and understand code since requirements for each use case can be different.

      • Keep your mind open since there isn’t a "one size fits all" solution in this case.

      • The best way to practice this is to read other people’s code and understand their thought processes.

      • He also shared a link to a blog post on Chesterton’s Fence which describes second-order thinking in depth.

    • Pranav Dani suggested that once the project starts growing and picking up pace, documentation is necessary to understand the functions of the code.

  • Wilfred Almeida asked how one should go about reading and understanding code.

    • Anil Gohan suggested taking two or three layers of abstraction in a system or an application that you want to understand.

      • Try to trace how that system starts.

      • Try to trace all the services that the process forks into and understand how they interact with each other.

      • This gives us a high-level understanding of the architecture and how it works.

      • Eventually one can start to identify patterns in the system.

  • jaden furtado shared a link to a video on Adventures at AMD: Origin of Threadripper where Anil Gohan was featured.

Attendees

  1. Aryan Pathak

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Darshit Suratwala

  4. Dheeraj Lalwani

  5. Harsh Kapadia

  6. Kartik Soneji

  7. Pranav Dani

  8. Ramyak Mehra

  9. Rishit Dagli

  10. Shubham Sah

  11. Siddharth Kaduskar

  12. Wilfred Almeida

  13. jaden furtado

  14. Anil Gohan

  15. Dheer Bathija

  16. Hrishikesh Dhuri

  17. Mubashir Tanwar

  18. Prishi Jain

  19. Raghav Rathi

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