- By Meenal Sharma
“The Python bots notify the software engineers whenever fresh stock of vaccines are made available ”
Swaroop Gudipudi, a software engineer, tried to book vaccine slots on the CoWIN app. To his frustration, he failed repeatedly. He figured out that the biggest problem with vaccine finder apps was the subscription of millions of people which far surpasses the number of slots that become available. The other issue he discovered when exploring Aarogya Setu’s API was the application has slots for doses 1 and 2 of the vaccine. In case, a person is dose 1 individual trying to book a slot but slots are open for dose 2, then slots don’t get booked and no such message is displayed.
Swaroop put his skills to use and came up with his own “Atamnirbhar” solution, which fetched him slot
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Meenal Sharma
I am a journalism undergrad who loves playing basketball and writing about finance and technology. I believe in the power of words.
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