Turing Hut Newsletter #8: Convergence, GSoC and much more!

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Jan 22, 2023, 9:07:06 AM1/22/23

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Can you believe it's already the third week of the new year? Time is flying, but the atmosphere at VNRVJIET is buzzing with festivity!

Opportunities

Highlights

Convergence coding contest (Qualifier Round) was held on 21 Jan, 2023, with a significant number of teams participating. Now, it's your opportunity to share your experience from the event. How was your overall experience with the contest? Which question did you find interesting? Which question did you find challenging? Feel free to share your thoughts in the form attached below. Are you excited for the final round?

Good Reads

Mass Layoffs in 2022 & 2023: What’s Next for Employees?
Mass layoffs are a difficult but common occurrence in the business world that leaves many employees wondering how they’ll be affected and what to do should they find themselves holding a pink slip.

While the current employment market in the US is strong — with low unemployment rates and high job growth — this could all change in the near future as many businesses struggle to adapt to the changing economy. Read more here.

NFTs 101 — Why NFTs are a generational innovation
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a new type of digital asset that are unique and cannot be replaced by another identical item. They are bought and sold on blockchain marketplaces and can represent digital art, collectibles, and other digital assets. The writer of this article has spent over $1 million on NFTs and believes they are a foundational technological revolution of our generation. They believe that returns on NFT investments can be far greater than cryptocurrency and that they align incentives for creators and collectors better than ever before. The article provides a comprehensive overview of NFTs and how to start interacting with them. Read more here.

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL?
Uber originally used a monolithic backend application written in Python and Postgres for data persistence, but has since switched to a microservices model and a new data platform called Schemaless, which is a novel database sharding layer built on top of MySQL. The decision to move away from Postgres was due to limitations in its architecture such as inefficiency in writes, data replication and table corruption issues, among others. Schemaless was chosen for its benefits over Postgres. Read more here.

Todo Problem

Here's a problem chosen by our problem setters for you to try: problem link

Did we miss any opportunities? Do you have an experience to share? Want to get your blog featured in the next newsletter? Fill up this form, and we'll get in touch.

Thanks to Avinash, Supriya and Suraj for contributing to the newsletter.