Sharpen Your Craft | Vedcraft Tech Newsletter - May 2023

One Place for Software and Cloud Architects

Jun 02, 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.

New Vedcraft Articles

Top Microservices Frameworks in Go

This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Frameworks in Go. Considering the flexibility in MSA (Microservices Architecture), these are not mutually exclusive and you can choose as per your architectural requirements, business need, organizational context, and other factors under consideration. Modern cloud-native architecture can use multiple frameworks in the same organization to develop different microservices.

Engineering Blogs Every Software Architect Should Read

As a Software Architect, being aware and gaining broader context is a table-stakes in the current environment. But with information overload with many sources (social media, blogs, news articles, etc.), it is essential to prioritize your reading preferences. Read more by clicking here.

Software Quality Strategy Essential for Every Architect

Ensuring software quality is one of the key performance indicators for a software architect. That’s why having a strategy to ensure software quality is an essential aspect of software architect’s key responsibilities. Essentially you can apply Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) to manage Software Quality. Read more by clicking here.

Technology Events

Upcoming tech conferences in June:

PlatformCon (08-09 June): The top DevOps and platform engineering leaders on one virtual stage, for 2 days. Born to celebrate our community of 15k+ platform engineers. Registration is Free.
Geekle API Conference (13 June): Share about the growing role of APIs, latest tools, trends, and use cases. Registration is virtual with starting cost of $250/-.
GrafanaCon (12-14 June): Grafana community event with a focus on observability. Registration is Free.
PulumiUP (15 June): The infrastructure-as-a-code conference. Registration is Free.
Snowflake Summit (26-29 June): Data, Analytics, and AI conference with Snowflake as a foundational technology. The event will be held in Las Vegas and the cost is starting at $1795/-.

Innovative Tools/Technologies

This section highlights three technology solutions handpicked by our team:

Cloud-native Buildpacks: don’t need your own Dockerfile to build images. It transforms your application source code into images that can run on any cloud.
K8sGPT: a tool for scanning the Kubernetes clusters, diagnosing and triaging issues in simple English.
cptn.io: an open-source self-hostable platform that helps develop and deploy integrations and data pipelines quickly and easily.

Architecture Articles/News You Should Not Miss

This section summarizes hand-picked architecture articles and news from authors, bloggers, research companies, and more.

Software Architecture

Technical Debt can be intentional or unintentional - this is very handy information to understand different types of technical debt. Click here to read more.
Image Source: https://www.promaticsindia.com/blog/technical-debt-and-its-implications/
Gartner Symposium for Marketing Technology. Read Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 highlights.
Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery
Image Source: https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecture-modernization-domain-driven-discovery/