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OTC CatchUp #264

Authors: Ayush More · Ankush Kapoor

Date: 29-11-2025

Duration: 2 hrs 48 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Hritik Jaiswal discussed his team project regarding sending notifications to users.

    • He drew comparisons to the infrastructure used by companies like Krafton and features in Clash of Clans.

    • He also touched upon major cloud providers like Cloudflare experiencing outages and the resulting load spikes on their systems.

  • Krishna Gadia explained the analytics tools he uses in his day-to-day work.

    • He detailed the differences between OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing).

    • He reviewed Pratik Thakare and Darshan Rander’s project OwnDB, providing constructive feedback and highlighting potential setbacks.

  • Rudraksh Mehta, a 3rd-year AI/ML student, shared his learning journey.

    • He is currently focusing on learning FastAPI.

  • Ayush asked about Service Mesh.

    • Leon N explained what a Service Mesh is and its role in microservices communication.

  • Kartik Soneji faced a critical issue with a corrupted VHDX disk, Hyper-V, and NFS setup (exposed over iSCSI).

  • Alpesh Bhagwatkar shared his Linux setup journey.

    • He discussed his transition from an initial setup to his current Hyprland configuration.

    • He emphasized understanding exactly what goes wrong during configuration and shared plugins for better customization.

    • He also raised a discussion on security, specifically regarding SSH keys, sudo privileges, and preventing privilege escalation.

  • The group had a broader discussion on the Linux experience.

    • Topics included customization, system smoothness, RMA management, and comparisons with Windows.

Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Darshan Rander

  4. Hritik Jaiswal

  5. Jaden Furtado

  6. Kartik Soneji

  7. Krishna Gadia

  8. Pratik Thakare

  9. Ramyak Mehra

  10. Rishit Dagli

  11. Wilfred Almeida

  12. Ayush More

  13. LUEE KASAUDHAN

  14. Leon N

  15. Rishikesh Prasad

  16. Rudraksh Mehta

  17. Yash Kalwani

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