About OTC CatchUp
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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #77
Date: 30-04-2022
Duration: 4 hrs 1 min
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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We talked about unknowingly incurring AWS charges.
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Sreekaran Srinath talked about the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 mask mandate issue.
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Ashwin Kumar Uppala told us about him organising CodeDay Hyderabad.
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Research papers
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We talked about how a lot of things need to be considered to write a research paper.
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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.
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Other things include literature review, implementation, approaching mentors, defining the novelty of the idea and its use cases, etc.
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Rishit Dagli shared his experience of writing his first research paper.
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He also shared a screenshot of an e-mail he sent when he was first collaborating.
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We discussed the GitHub Campus Expert training.
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Activision video game testing
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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.
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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.
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Vatsal mentioned load testing their games by populating servers with a lot of instances of games to stimulate users.
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Hriday Keswani shared a video about an AI that helps in game testing.
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Aditya Oberai told us about his recent pull request that added an OAuth adapter for Auth0 to Appwrite.
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We talked about the Zero-width space bug in WhatsApp that made it crash.
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We discussed the social and marketing aspects of TikTok and Instagram Reels.
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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.
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We talked about ARP tables.
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We discussed how Flipkart double encodes URLs to remove any special characters.
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We talked about the pros and cons of .NET.
Projects Showcased
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Dheeraj Lalwani and Chirag Lulla showcased an on-demand video streaming server.
Attendees
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Siddharth Kaduskar
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Hiten Gerella
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Sanford Richards
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Moiz Ghansar
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Unnati Chhabaria
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Nidhi Kashyap
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Krishna Kashyap
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Nishant Mishra
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Sejal Jain
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Vivek Namaye
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