OTC CatchUp #39 Summary

General Introductions.

@Rishit Dagli talked a lot about his published paper on machine learning.

@Jay Kaku asked about the difference between TF and TFJS.

@Sanni Prasad gave a detailed explanation about GitLab’s CI/CD, and gave a walkthrough of the code for setting up CI/CD for a Flutter project.

@Dheeraj Lalwani introduced everyone to Navidrome - An Open Source, Self Hosted Music Server, demo, repo

Aryan asked for some advice on an ECommerce Project idea for learning. He wanted to build something like Strapi or Woocommerce

@Sanni Prasad discussed about HarmonyOS & its future!

@Aryan Chavan shared a video in which a guy virtualized macOS on arch Linux and got better performance than the starting mac pro at approx 2/3 the cost.

@Dheeraj Lalwani asked for a few resources about Data Warehouse & Mining & @jaden furtado shared link-1 & link-2

We then discussed about application of Java in Banks & various financial institutions.

We also compared Java to C#.

We talked about the upcoming Blockchain Hackathon - Solana

Then, we discussed about pricing freelance projects.

We talked about work time estimation, especially, Agile methodology & how much companies follow it.

@Sanni Prasad shared a resource about Story Point-Based Estimation