OTC CatchUp #64 Summary

General introductions.

Random Access Memory (RAM)

Cache coherency and the MESI Protocol

We discussed how ML code is executed on computers.

Anil Harwani asked everyone to look up Streaming Stores in hardware and Non-Temporal Mmemory.

TCP and UDP

y-cruncher - A Multi-Threaded Pi-Program.

We also talked about OpenSSL’s Heartbleed bug.

Anil Harwani's message: 'Dig deeper into everything.'

Mayur Kukreja shared an article on How Google stores massive amounts of data — BigTable

Saurabh Suryan and Harsh Kapadia talked about commit message formats.

We discussed about bundling, obfuscation and minification.

Harsh Kapadia asked whether it was okay to re-render a component an extra time or whether one should club the states. It was pertaining to his Git Graph project.

Web3

We talked about burnouts, FOMO and mental health.

We discussed about TypeScript to JavaScript transpilation and the benefits of using TypeScript.

Anil Harwani shared an article Are we really Engineers?

A recurring theme on OTC CatchUp is the fact that a lot of us younger Engineers today only know high level abstracted things and how to use tools. We have less knowledge about the internals of tools and fundamental Computer Science knowledge. This makes us handicapped when things go wrong below the abstraction that we all deal with and in general lead to less-optimized decisions.

Anil Harwani explained why we can’t have all general purpose registers if they are so speed efficient.

We compared AMD and Intel processors.

We discussed the MLH Fellowship.

We talked about the measurement of sizes of Transistors on processors and how more Transistors implies more processing power.

Shivay Lamba shared his talk Machine Learning in Node.js using Tensorflow.js and talked about his upcoming talk at Node Congress.

Saurabh Suryan shared his project Automating my attendance with Python. He used Flask on the server and Beautiful Soup for scraping.