Snowflake Developers & Community Update — Aug 2023 Edition

<p>Welcome to the Snowflake Developers &amp; Community Update, a monthly blog about everything going on in the&nbsp;<a href="https://community.snowflake.com/s/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Snowflake Community</a>! Learn about Snowflake developer programs, user groups, discussion channels, advocacy opportunities, open-source projects, and more.</p> <p>Let&rsquo;s get started!</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinodhini-sd/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>&nbsp;Vino Duraisamy</strong></a></p> <p>Hello! I&rsquo;m Vino Duraisamy from the Snowflake Developer Relations team. I have the privilege of publishing our monthly developers and community newsletter this month, and what a month it has been! Personally, I joined Snowflake as a developer advocate last month and it has been a month of learning. I put together the notes from my bootcamp into a Snowflake data engineer roadmap for anyone who is getting started with Snowflake.</p> </blockquote> <h2><a href="https://medium.com/snowflake/step-by-step-roadmap-to-becoming-a-snowflake-data-engineer-in-2023-18c823ba8b9c?source=post_page-----186c576805ad--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">Step by step roadmap to becoming a Snowflake Data Engineer in 2023</a></h2> <h3><a href="https://medium.com/snowflake/step-by-step-roadmap-to-becoming-a-snowflake-data-engineer-in-2023-18c823ba8b9c?source=post_page-----186c576805ad--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">Hint &mdash; SQL &amp; Python is all you need. Yeah, no kidding!!</a></h3> <p><a href="https://medium.com/snowflake/step-by-step-roadmap-to-becoming-a-snowflake-data-engineer-in-2023-18c823ba8b9c?source=post_page-----186c576805ad--------------------------------" rel="noopener follow" target="_blank">medium.com</a></p> <h1>What&rsquo;s new this month?</h1> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*CJ6_i4mB1VCpeWfN.png" style="height:368px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Snowflake academy presents Generative AI &amp; LLM school with 3 different tracks &mdash; for&nbsp;<strong>builders, business leaders and enterprises</strong>!</p> <ol> <li>Developer&rsquo;s Guide: Building Your First LLM-Powered App</li> <li>Data Executive&rsquo;s Guide: The Opportunities and Challenges of Generative AI</li> <li>Building an Enterprise LLM Platform: Snowflake Infrastructure for Generative AI</li> </ol> <p>Get the latest scoop from the Snowflake Summit with&nbsp;<strong><em>hands-on know-how</em></strong>&nbsp;and insights from the likes of&nbsp;<strong><em>NVIDIA&rsquo;s Jensen Huang</em></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>Microsoft&rsquo;s Ali Dalloul</em></strong>, and&nbsp;<strong><em>Andrew Ng from Landing AI</em></strong>.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/snowflake/snowflake-developers-community-update-aug-2023-edition-186c576805ad">Website</a></p>