OTC CatchUp #180 Summary

Dheeraj Lalwani told us the need for daily standup meetings at his workplace.

Darshit Suratwala shared a project he is helping build at work, Langtrace, which is an open source observability software which lets one capture, debug and analyze traces and metrics from all applications that leverage LLM APIs, Vector Databases and LLM based frameworks.

Harsh Kapadia shared

Chirag Nayyar told us about Capital Expenditure (CapEx) vs Operating Expenses (OpEx).

Darshan Rander talked about how he really enjoyed giving a Flutter animations talk at Peerlist’s first Tech Talks meetup!

Rishit Dagli told us What are vectors and how do they apply to machine learning?

Rishit Dagli told us about animated PDFs. We didn’t know that was a thing!

Pratik Thakare talked about his operating system and environment.

Micro VMs vs (Full) VMs vs Containers

We talked about how it is really confusing for someone to figure out how to create a React.js project, because the official React.js docs suggest frameworks like Next.js and Remix instead of a way to bootstrap a React.js project like the now deprecated Create React App project did.

We saw the video of a Cloudflare employee being laid off without being told why.

Jaden Furtado told us how he found vulnerabilities in an application that he was filling out, which led to user data and documents being exposed to the internet through a database that was open to the internet.

Jaden Furtado showcased an update to his power grid simulation project, which is now able to run a small section of a power grid properly and can theoretically be drop-in solution for a real power grid as he is using the same protocols that actual power grids use, like Modbus, IEC 61850, MMS and GOOSE. He is going to open source his implementation as well.

Pratik Thakare told us how he is planning to build a server for a biometric attendance tracker to implement additional features.