Episode 107: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft

Welcome to this week's edition of myNewsWrap, news from the world of SAP, Microsoft and the world in between.

SAP Universe - from the community

Let's us start with the SAP side of the house i. e. news around the Business Technology Platform and news from the broader SAP ecosystem:

• Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? Tried-and-True!
• API Contract: Enforcement of Compliance with a Style Guide

Microsoft Universe

Now let's look at the Microsoft universe.

Azure Functions/Serverless

Here is what happened this week in the serverless space like Azure Functions and Static Web Apps:

• Create realtime dashboards to show serverless workflow progress
• Visualize Azure serverless workflow progress in realtime with pubsub
• Interesting read: SAP on the tipping point (LinkedIn Article as well as referenced blog post)

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

From Serverless to Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes - what did this week provide us with?

• Azure Container Apps Volume Mounts using Azure Files
• 7 Kubernetes Best Practices
• Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service hybrid deployment options
• Helm und Helmfile
• Dapr Community Call 71

GitHub & DevOps

What happened in the area of DevOps and esp. GitHub which pushed things out like crazy this week (a pre-GitHub Universe thing?):

• Defender for DevOps on AzureDevOps
• The new GitHub Issues – October 18th update
• New Branch Protections: Last Pusher and Locked Branch
• Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens
• Unboxing fork improvements and unwrapping fork docs
• View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
• Manage caches in your Actions workflows from Web Interface
• GitHub Actions:OpenID Connect support enhanced to enable secure cloud deployments at scale
• Improving navigation for GitHub Actions - highly appreciated improvement!
• Dependabot alerts organizational-level REST API
• Dependabot can now generate security and version updates for Yarn v2 and v3
• Incremental Dev Container Rebuild
• Introducing the Codespaces Simple Browser
• GitHub app in Slack – Issue create and manage experience

Misc

Interested in some new from the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Then here are some links for you:

• Your ultimate guide to Azure app innovation at Microsoft Ignite 2022
• New milestones at Ignite 2022 for Azure confidential computing
• Go available on App Service

🐱‍👤 SAP and Microsoft - Combining both worlds

Now let's enter the twilight zone (no worries the ninja cat is with us) between SAP and Microsoft and see the magic happening when we combine both worlds:

• SAP private linky swear with Azure – extending BTP apps with microservices in Azure Kubernetes Service via SAP Private Link .. next stop hopefully Azure Container Apps
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #115 - The one with Working with Oracle and ANF (Kellyn Gorman & Geert van Teylingen) | SAP on Azure

Learning and Events

We always want to learn, so here are some links to some interesting learning resources and upcoming events:

• Developer Hub JavaScript at Microsoft - Everything from Microsoft for JavaScript developers
• 5 tips for embedding security into your workflows
• Learning Kubernetes Operators with Percona Operator for MongoDB

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Mark the date BTPcon is coming in 2023
• DDD Europe 2023 - blind bird tickets are available

Golo's Corner

As a regular guest and due to the high-quality content here an overview what Golo Roden provided us this week:

• Unsere YouTube-App für Euch! // deutsch - so cool. Here is the link https://app.thenativeweb.io/

Productivity & Developer Experience

Last but not least, some links that might make our developer live easier and reflect on our profession:

• Making meetups and workshops more interactive with QuizzR
• Microsoft Ignite - in person Seattle review - the struggle with hybrid events

And with this enjoy your weekend and have a successful next week!