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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 #171
Date: 17-02-2024
Duration: 3 hrs
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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Dheeraj Lalwani shared that he recently got a new job at HeyMarvin.
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He also shared a link to the project that he was recently working on called Postpone.
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AI/ML Roadmap asked by Harshit Malang.
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We had a short discussion about Mumbai Tech Week conducted in Jio World convention.
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Harsh Kapadia shared a few links for some cloud platforms:
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Darshit Suratwala and Harsh Kapadia had a chat about HashiCorp, its licensing changes and a discussion around the implications of these changes.
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Harsh Kapadia referenced a few system design resources that he shared in one of the previous CatchUp sessions.
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While sharing his project, Pranav Dani talked a bit about D3.js and difference between D3.js and Three.js.
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Links to articles and YouTube channels:
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Shubham Sah shared that he was a judge for a hackathon at Thakur College in Mumbai and since the theme was around AI, it was a bit difficult to differentiate between the functionalities of applications since most of the heavy lifting was done by the AI.
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Ramyak Mehra talked about a talk on the topic "Why Rust isn’t the best choice for your next project" that he will be giving in Banglore in March.
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He gave some insights and the ideology behind this talk since he has been working with Rust for a while now.
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The discussion branched into his work at Dyte where he was working on the media pipeline.
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He talked about SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) and how it works.
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A diagram that he shared.
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Dheeraj Lalwani shared Video Streaming Server, a project that he worked on in college.
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He has also added some good resources in the documentation.
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We discussed muxing and de-muxing of media streams across different platforms like Zoom and Google Meet.
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Some take up the approach of sending all the streams differently to all the participants while some take the approach of sending a single combined stream to all the participants.
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Links related to the topic:
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We had a good discussion about different video codecs and how some are good for storing while some are good for transmitting data.
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We talked about Modern Image Formats: AVIF, WebP and Progressive vs Interlaced Video.
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Kartik Soneji and Ramyak Mehra talked about mp4 compression, interlacing and some operations that can be performed on it.
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Kartik Soneji and jaden furtado talked about a CTF (Capture The Flag) event that they participated in.
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Ramdump, XSS, Binary exploitation, Padding Oracle Attack were some of the topics that were discussed.
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Darshan Rander shared that he was exploring gRPC and how it can be used in a microservices architecture.
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We then talked about ProtoBuf, HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and how gRPC can be used under the hood.
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Projects Showcased
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Pranav Dani showcased his visualisation project, a React app that uses D3.js to visualise data from NYC Open Data. The visualizations include bar charts, histograms, and scatterplots to represent numerical and categorical attributes.
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Technologies used: React, D3.js.
Attendees
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Anil Harwani
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Badimi Prabodh
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Gagan Nagu
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Gauri Khanolkar
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Harshit Malang
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Kartik Patel
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Mizuhara Kakkashi
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Rahul Gandla
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Roshni Mandhani
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Rushil Shrivastava
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Sparsh Sharma
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