Sharpen Your Craft | Vedcraft Tech Newsletter - March 2023

One Place for Software and Cloud Architects

Apr 01, 2023

“One place for Software Architects” is our mantra and the purpose of this newsletter is to provide summarized articles on a monthly basis for technical leads, software architects, software designers, senior software engineers, and more.

Happy New Year - looking forward to learning and growing as a community!

New Vedcraft Articles

Key Takeaways from Azure Open Source Day 2023

Microsoft has organized an Azure Open Source Day on March 7, 2023. A key focus of the event was to promote building Cloud-native applications applying Open source technologies along with Azure. This article highlights key takeaways from Azure Open Source Day 2023 sharing news, product updates, innovation stories, and more.

Top Ten Technology Trends in 2023

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. Read more by clicking here.

Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology event. While there were many sessions covering leadership, partnership, technology updates, case studies, and much more — this article focused on sharing key takeaways from the event for software architects. Read more by clicking here.

Key AWS Services/Features launched during AWS reInvent 2022

Technology Events

Adobe Summit (Mar 21-23): Adobe’s annual summit was concluded this month with 200+ sessions focused on Adobe technologies, user experience, content management, artificial intelligence, and more.
Azure Open Source Day (Mar 7): Microsoft has organized an Azure Open Source Day on March 7, 2023. A key focus of the event was to promote building Cloud-native applications applying Open source technologies along with Azure.
ElasticON Global 2023 (Mar 7-8): Elastic organized an annual event focused on enterprise search, observability, and security use cases with Elastic solutions and the Elastic Stack.

Upcoming tech conferences in April:

DevOps Global Summit by Geekle (Apr 4-5): About latest trends in DevOps.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU (Apr 18-21): Open source and cloud-native technologies with a vendor-neutral mindset have been the key focus area of CNCF. Join the conference to know more about cloud-native.
AI Summit (Apr 19-20): The world’s leading AI summit for the Americas will return to Montréal and bring together global AI leaders from enterprises, big tech, startups, academia, and more.

Innovative Tools/Technologies

This section highlights three technology solutions handpicked by our team:

BARD: Googl’e BARD (an experimental Google chatbot powered by the LaMDA large language model) has been launched this month. It is available to the selected audience (you can add yourself to the waitlist).
ChatGPT Plus: ChatGPT Plus based on GPT-4 was released by OpenAI on March 14, 2023, almost four months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public in November 2022.
Slim.ai: An AI-based software supply chain security advisor - that ensures container security by removing vulnerabilities automatically. You can integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline accelerating the software supply chain security.