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OTC CatchUp #258

Authors: Alpesh Bhagwatkar · Darshan Rander · Ankush Kapoor

Date: 18-10-2025

Duration: 1 hr 40 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Kartik Soneji, Pratik Thakare and Darshan Rander shared their project OwnDB, which securely provisions, manages, backs up, and patches databases on any compute provider with just an SSH connection.

    • OwnDB is platform agnostic with BYOC (Bring Your Own Compute) and SSH support for containers, IoT, VMs, and bare-metal servers.

    • The system ensures data sovereignty without sacrificing the speed and convenience of a managed dashboard, providing complete control over infrastructure and data, detailed auditable activity logs, and seamless cross-platform management from one intuitive dashboard.

    • The implementation of using a private key to access the server using SSH sparked a debate on why to use a private key rather than password-based authentication.

  • Alpesh Bhagwatkar shared his VPS instance for a live demo of the project to test its functionality.

    • Kartik Soneji, Jaden Furtado, and Darshan Rander helped Alpesh set up a new user and SSH keys for that user to share the private key.

    • This raised questions about the difficulty of sharing an SSH private key and how password-based authentication would be much easier in comparison.

Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Darshan Rander

  4. Dheeraj Lalwani (Dhiru)

  5. Jaden Furtado

  6. Kartik Soneji

  7. Mohit Gangwani

  8. Rishit Dagli

  9. Sahil Prasad

  10. Wilfred Almeida

  11. AKASH PATIL

  12. Avantika

  13. Ayush More

  14. Ganesh Kanchi

  15. Gaurav Patel

  16. Jatin Lachhani

  17. Krishana Dave

  18. LUEE KASAUDHAN

  19. Madhav Mishra

  20. Mahipal Singh

  21. Ramnarayan Maurya

  22. Shafin

  23. Vishal Tiwari

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