OTC CatchUp #67 Summary

General introductions.

Jaden Furtado shared site reliability engineering books by Google.

Jaden Furtado Hack

We discussed how Darshan Rander and Dheeraj Lalwani's project idea can be licensed out as a SaaS.

Dheeraj Lalwani shared a link to The Million Dollar ^Homepage.

We discussed about NFTs.

[Siddharth] shared his AR project idea in which he aims to convert the tall glass buildings for example Times Square, in New York to NFT Art museums.

Anil Harwani discussed about C/C++ language.

Jaden Furtado shared a project he was working on: A to-do app with a 3d animated robot that is happy when you complete a task.

Sreekaran Srinath discussed how he ended up getting internships and 2 jobs.

Anil Harwani shared with everyone how he got in contact with AMD and his journey in technology.

Aaditya Chinchkhedkar asked for help on a BIOS issue he was facing.

Anil Harwani told everyone about how audio is usually the more difficult engineering issue when working with livestreams.

Aditya Oberai shared his article - What Is DevRel?.

Someone shared a video - We ACTUALLY downloaded more RAM by Linus Tech Tips.

A lot of tips and discussions happened on getting through offline college. Sreekaran Srinath told everyone how he slept through most of his college.

Aditya Oberai and [Saurabh] shared how they’ve been writing their own component libraries and basically replacing all frameworks and libraries by ones they’ve been writing on their own and opensourcing them.

Dheeraj Lalwani asked everyone how Webhooks and how they work internally.

Dheeraj Lalwani asked a few doubts about Server Sent Events, how they work and about how it really works.

Anil Harwani explained the Pub-Sub - Publisher Subscriber architecture.

We compared xCloud and Stadia which are two functional cloud gaming services that offer different types of experiences.

Everyone collectively hated on RGB lit keyboards and other computer accessories.

Anil Harwani shared a video - GeForce Now RTX 3080 Cloud Review vs xCloud/Stadia - The Best Streaming Solution?.

We talked about AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ Processors.

Sreekaran Srinath talked about him moving to the United States.

A lot of things about gaming were discussed.

Anil Harwani and Aditya Oberai had an intriguing conversation about DevRel.

We talked about Warefare games.

Ishan Sharma's rap battle at Hackerrank was showcased.

We talked about ed-tech startups, Coding Blocks Mafia and how it gave rise to a number of strong players in the ed tech startup world.

We talked about the infamous bitcoin pizza.

Aditya Oberai shared his experience at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup.

More discussuins about gaming and various games followed.

We once again took on the topic of DevRels and Sales.

We talked about Developer Experience (DX).

Dheeraj Lalwani and Darshan Rander showcased their presented their project idea - SocialHub which is a social media engagement aggregator for influencers/companies.