#32 - Sharpen Your Craft | Vedcraft Tech Newsletter
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Vedcraft Articles
Top Ten Technology Trends for 2024
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not only helps software architects to understand the impact of technologies being adopted but also helps them build the right skill set for themselves or their team:
Evolution of In-memory database and in-memory data grid technology
Over the years in-memory computing has evolved and played a significant role in modern architecture primarily as part of Data Platform solutions. In-memory data grid and in-memory database/datastore technology are part of the data platform ecosystem. Click here to read more.
Top 5 Generative AI News You Should Know (Q1 2024)
This article captures essential news and updates by major cloud service providers (Google, Microsoft, AWS) and Generative AI technology leaders (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and more) in Q1 2024. Click here to read more.
Articles/POVs You Should Know Miss
30 Emerging Technologies That Will Guide Your Business Decisions: Gartner
Architect’s Guide to a Reference Architecture for an AI/ML Data Lake
Source: https://resources.min.io/c/modern-datalake-reference-architecture Reference Guide on understanding and implementing micro-frontends on AWS
Source: AWS Documentation Reference Architecture for Generative AI Based on Large Language Models (LLMs) by Lenovo
Technology News
While there are many updates, we have started consolidating key news on our platform - click here to visit our News section. Key industry news in recent times:
Microsoft’s BSOD issue and its global impact have surprised the entire IT industry and highlighted the widespread usage of Windows technology across industries. While the CrowdStrike Falcon issue was identified as a root cause, it raised questions about IT strategy for IT leaders in terms of designing systems with reliability, resiliency, single-point-of-failure, and related features effectively.
Anhtropic’s Claude 3.5 (Sonnet) and related models released in June have elevated the Gen AI capabilities with better quality, reasoning, and features such as ‘Artifacts’ - which helps to visualize AI-generated content, code, and others in a real-time manner and interact with Claude AI to enhance progressively.
Meta launched Llama 3.1 405B — the first frontier-level open-source AI model with new workflows such as synthetic data generation and model distillation, new security and safety tools (Llama Guard 3 & Prompt Guard), agentic components of the Llama Stack APIs with reference solutions. Click here to read more.
Innovative Tools and Technologies
This section highlights three technology solutions handpicked by our team:
NVIDIA NIM: a platform launched in Mar ‘24 offering a set of easy-to-use inference microservices for accelerating the deployment of foundation models for building Generative AI apps on any cloud or data center.
Arthur Bench: is an open-source evaluation tool for comparing LLMs, prompts, and hyperparameters for generative text models.
Port: is an open internal portal development platform for building end-to-end developers’ experience with security, and enterprise considerations.
Food for Thought
As the Claude 3.5 Sonnet Artifacts feature buzzed the social media with cool demos, what would you plan to build with that?
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