OTC CatchUp #52 Summary

General introductions.

@Rishit Dagli showcased his collection of six new pre-trained ConvMixer models that he published on TensorFlow Hub.

@Rishit Dagli also showcased a paper in which he invented a new Math theorem. (Paper)

Daksh Miglani's WebRTC notes were shared.

@ishandeveloper talked about his journey building HackerResume at HackerRank and how he brought down the live HackerResume web app down for about 10 minutes.

@Rutvik J talked about his work analysing transaction volume and other KPIs (Key Performance Indices) on Polygon. (His Dune Analytics dashboard)

Salil Bajaj shared a few podcast links pertaining to the Web3 domain

Omkar Khair talked about how he got interested in Networking protocols and how he studies them from RFCs. He got particularly interested in e-mail related protocols like POP3, SMTP and DKIM.

Omkar Khair also talked about how Pakistan brought down YouTube in 2008 by hijacking IP addresses.

@Harsh Kapadia shared a mind-boggling talk on Scaling hotstar.com for 25 million concurrent viewers.

@Jay Kaku talked about how he has been exploring hardware languages and design.

@Hardik Raheja asked about the optimizations required to make apps perform better for newer OSs/processors/architectures.

Omkar Khair told us about FPGA chips that Apple uses in the iPhone camera, whose architecture is programmable.

@sirus asked for common architecture (Eg: MVC, MVVM, etc) and Design Patterns that people use, to improve his code style.

@jaden furtado showed us a NoSQL Injection and shared GraphQLmap, a scripting engine to interact with GraphQL endpoints for pentesting purposes.

@Preet Parekh showcased two projects, Colllab. so and BMC.

Omkar Khair shared his project Dopemin, which helps tag e-mails from different sources and turn them off. (Web app)