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OTC CatchUp #5

Date: 12-12-2020

Duration: 5 hr

Topics Discussed

  • Saurabh’s job as a front end engg at Razorpay (the interview process, the languages and frameworks used there, etc).

  • Saurabh also told us how he made a compiler for a small language of his own! (It’s available on NPM!) Milan gave his inputs on the topic as well.

  • www.pointerpointer.com intrigued us for some time lol

  • What is Svelte and how it compares with React.js.

  • JSX

  • Obscure languages like Haskell and Prolog.

  • Kartik’s GSoC at MariaDB experience and story.

  • How MariaDB started, Oracle DB and the problems with MySQL.

  • Saket showed us his Quick Sort visualizer and his new AVL trees visualizer that is under development.

  • Darshan showed us his portfolio that is under development. He made it using Flutter Web.

  • DB engines like InnoDB.

  • What is Firebase, what are the services it has and what is Heroku in comparison.

  • GitHub vs GitLab vs BitBucket

  • Darshan told us about the Pavan Kumar live stream with Thomas.

  • We ended with the AIB placement series vids lol

Meet Screenshot

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