Episode xx: 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:

• Improve resiliency of your applications deployed on Kyma runtime by using multiple availability zones
• Deprecation of Loki based application logs in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime
• Public custom domains easy with SAP BTP, Kyma runtime.

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:

• V2 Programming Model for Azure Functions using Python
• Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4
• This month in SWA - October 2022

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 - Samples
• LunchBytes - Hands-on with Azure Container Apps
• Set up HTTPS or TCP ingress in Azure Container Apps
• Container Apps - Scaling with KEDA
• Kubernetes: When to Use, and When to Avoid, the Operator Pattern
• Progressive Delivery with Argo Rollouts: Canary Deployment
• Azure Kubernetes Service news from KubeCon North America 2022
• Announcing sustainability guidance for Azure Kubernetes Service

GitHub & DevOps

What happened in the area of DevOps and esp. GitHub - let's see:

• Yellow security vulnerability repository banner is being removed
• Code scanning now supports using CodeQL packs on GitHub.com and GHES
• High-impact package maintainers now require 2FA
• How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
• GitHub partners with Arm to revolutionize Internet of Things software development with GitHub Actions
• How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
• Preview: referencing public code in GitHub Copilot

Misc

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

• Sharing the latest improvements to efficiency in Microsoft’s datacenters - nice addition to last weeks SAP on Azure Podcast episode
• Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 7
• Infographic – Design Principles for a great Azure Solution

And some news around the Azure Developer CLI:

• What's up Azure Developer CLI … in October? - before 0.4.0 came out
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – November 2022 Release
• 0.4.0-beta.1
• Resources for the Azure Developer CLI

🐱‍👤 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:

• Principal propagation in a multi-cloud solution between Microsoft Azure and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Part VI: Calling the Microsoft Graph on behalf of the SAP-authenticated user
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #117 - Integrating SAP Digital Supply Chain with Microsoft (Domnic Benedict & Bartosz Jarkowski)
• Azure DevOps pipeline for deploying to CF and uploading to CTMS

Learning and Events

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

• Some notes on modular JSON Schema definitions
• Dein Plattform-Team verdient diese Bezeichnung (vermutlich) nicht – INNOQ Technology Lunch
• Complete Playlist: DaprCon 2022
• How does Windows manage to build new APIs without breaking existing ones?

Golo's Corner

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

• 5 Gründe, warum C# Murks (und nicht mehr so ganz zeitgemäß) ist // deutsch
• Nur mit dem Typsystem coden?! // deutsch - Finally live stream time again!
  • It's all about Type-level TypeScript

Productivity & Developer Experience

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

• Exclusive Interview with Phil Spencer from Xbox! - maybe Xbox won't boost your productivity, but so what :-)
• Creating a more inclusive security research field
• For those of you currently switching from Twitter to Mastodon: Debirdify app

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