OTC CatchUp #47 Summary

General introductions.

We talked about various flavours of Linux terminals such as fish and zsh.

@Ramyak Mehra told everyone about Thunder Client which is a Rest Client just like Postman for Testing APIs, but in the form of a VS Code Extension.

@Harsh Kapadia told everyone about various MIME types. Eg: image/png, image/jpeg, text/html, text/css, application/json, text/javascript

We also discussed about Templating Engines like Handlebar.js and EJS.

We talked about Lodash, which is a modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance and extras.

@Himanshu Sharma talked to us about his current internship experience where he is requiring to write Bash scripts, CRON Jobs and work with Node.js.

Krishna Gadia answered @Harsh Kapadia's questions on Apache Kafka, Ansible and Kubernetes (K8s).

@Harsh Kapadia asked for tips on the usual structure of a Node.js SDK.

@Harsh Kapadia asked about the different import and export syntax in JavaScript, in the two module types (CommonJS and ES6 Modules).

We talked about the differences between JavaScript and TypeScript.

@Himanshu Sharma asked for recommendations on VPNs, he currently was using ZenMate.

@Harsh Kapadia shared a link to Hussein Nasser’s video on How Airline WIFI allows Texting but not Media in WhatsApp/iMessage.

@Jai Dewani told everyone about his Carl Zeiss interview experience and DSA questions.

@Saket Thota & @Jai Dewani talked about ICPC.

We talked about various competitive programming competitions such as

@Kartik Soneji helped @Aradhya Talan in implementing a class-based LinkedList in C++.

@Ramyak Mehra showcased his SQL query generator project written in Dart on the server side.

@Deepankar Bhade showcased his GraphQL Movie Ratings API.