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OTC CatchUp #77

Date: 30-04-2022

Duration: 4 hrs 1 min

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • We talked about unknowingly incurring AWS charges.

  • Sreekaran Srinath talked about the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 mask mandate issue.

  • Ashwin Kumar Uppala told us about him organising CodeDay Hyderabad.

  • Research papers

    • We talked about how a lot of things need to be considered to write a research paper.

      • Before even thinking about writing a research paper, one should have some basic CS knowledge and some expertise in the field in which they want to write a paper in.

      • Other things include literature review, implementation, approaching mentors, defining the novelty of the idea and its use cases, etc.

    • Rishit Dagli shared his experience of writing his first research paper.

  • We discussed the GitHub Campus Expert training.

  • Activision video game testing

    • Vatsal Patel, who works at Activison, told us how Call of Duty, a First Person Shooting video game written in C++, is tested by checking every character with every weapon and add-on that can be used.

    • Vatsal also told us how he automated testing the game using Python scripts for every console and platform and about the overarching testing setup that Activision has for its games.

    • Vatsal mentioned load testing their games by populating servers with a lot of instances of games to stimulate users.

    • Hriday Keswani shared a video about an AI that helps in game testing.

  • Aditya Oberai told us about his recent pull request that added an OAuth adapter for Auth0 to Appwrite.

  • We talked about the Zero-width space bug in WhatsApp that made it crash.

  • We discussed the social and marketing aspects of TikTok and Instagram Reels.

  • We talked about syncing issues in apps, i.e., the data and state synchronization problems that occur when offline updates in apps sync with the backend/database when the app comes back online.

  • We talked about ARP tables.

  • We discussed how Flipkart double encodes URLs to remove any special characters.

  • We talked about the pros and cons of .NET.

Projects Showcased

Attendees

  1. Tushar Nankani

  2. Keyul Jain

  3. Dheeraj Lalwani

  4. Ashwin Kumar Uppala

  5. Vatsal Patel

  6. Shubham Sah

  7. Kaustubh Khavnekar

  8. Rishit Dagli

  9. Siddharth Bhatia

  10. Sreekaran Srinath

  11. Chirag Lulla

  12. Saurabh Suryan

  13. Harsh Kapadia

  14. Himanshu Sharma

  15. Hriday Keswani

  16. Jaden Furtado

  17. Aditya Oberai

  18. Jay Kaku

  19. Pratik Thakare

  20. Darshan Rander

  21. Hardik Raheja

  22. Yash Adulkar

  23. Siddharth Kaduskar

  24. Hiten Gerella

  25. Sanford Richards

  26. Moiz Ghansar

  27. Unnati Chhabaria

  28. Nidhi Kashyap

  29. Krishna Kashyap

  30. Nishant Mishra

  31. Sejal Jain

  32. Vivek Namaye

Meet Screenshot

Meet #77 screenshot
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