OTC CatchUp #72 Summary

https://gsocorganizations.dev/ is an excellent resource for finding an organization that is a good fit for you.

Sreekaran Srinath explained what Google Summer of Code (GSoC) was, how it befitted both the organization and the student, and general tips on how to approach the process.

Sreekaran Srinath went into the history and design decisions that led to the evolution of the traditional monolithic server architecture into the current containerized microservice model that we see today.

Chirag Nayyar went into the history of Kubernates, how it was initially an internal Google project called Borg.

Chirag Nayyar also explained how visualization, works what a hypervisor is and what are the advantages over running directly on bare metal.

Kaustubh Khavnekar shared an image from the kubernetes docs that gives a high level idea visual of virtualization vs containerization: (image)

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes

Kartik Soneji said he did not recommend taking these exams (AWS/GCP/Azure) unless someone else is paying for them or you are getting a good discount, since credentials expire in 1-2 years and each exam costs upwards of $200. Instead, prefer long term or lifelong certifications like the Java Oracle Certified Professional.

Prikesh Savla shared a link to https://www.home-assistant.io, which is a project for setting up a home server. He also mentioned that there are many helpful communities on Reddit to help people get started.

Siddharth Bhatia said that he had a smart plug, and was thinking of a way to automatically switch on and off his laptop charger to keep his battery at the optimal charge level.

Kartik Soneji recommended looking into Mosquitto and the MQTT protocol, that is used by most smart devices to communicate with each other.

Siddharth Bhatia found a great blogpost to get started https://www.hivemq.com/blog/mqtt-cli

We touched upon the difference between an interface and a product, and if an interface can be copyrighted at all.

This also related to the lawsuit between Google and Oracle over the Android SDKs emulating the standard Java libraries so existing packages would be compatible, and how MariaDB has almost the exact same syntax as MySQL for compatibility reasons.

GitHub repository

Video upload and preprocessing

Serving video requests workflow

GitHub repo

Web app