Episode 129: 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:

• The 2023 SAP Developer Insights Survey Report Is Out!
• Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime! by Martin Frick
  • and the corresponding GitHub repo: Develop a multitenant Software as a Service application in SAP BTP using CAP
• SAP Cloud SDK and its relationship with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model by Milton Chandradas

and still some DSAG Technologietage aftermath:

• SAP überbrückt On-Premises und Cloud
• DSAG-Technologietage 2023: Die Realität berücksichtigen
• SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud
• Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy

and some comment on the upcoming changes in the SAP board: Schlangengrube SAP

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:

• #ThisMonthInSWA - March 2023
• Hosting a React application with a subpath on Azure Static Web Apps by Thomas Gauvin
• Enhanced Hybrid Next.js Support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure Friday by Reshmi Sriram and Scott Hanselman

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Kubernetes 1.27 – What’s new? by V. J. Cerrada (sysdig)
• Creating Dapr-enabled Platforms with Kratix by Mauricio Salatino
• Running Dapr in production with confidence
• Dapr Community Call 80 - Conductor looks really good.

And a call to action - The KEDA user Survey

GitHub & DevOps

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

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• GitHub Issues & Projects – April 6th update
• GitHub Availability Report: March 2023

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise by Jim Boyle and Jessi Moths

GitHub Actions

• Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions by Chris Reddington

GitHub other topics

• Redesigned navigation available in Public Beta - I can recommend to activate that beta feature!
• What’s new with GitHub Sponsors by Jessica Lord
• Calling all open source maintainers by Abby Cabunoc Mayes

Misc

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

• Get insights from customer interactions with Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI Service by David de Matheu
• Private linking and port forwarding to non-Azure resources

🐱‍👤 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 on Azure Video Podcast #138 - The one with Azure Open AI and SAP S/4HANA (Chan Jin Park)
• Power Platform + SAP - Installing the On-premises Data Gateway by Holger Bruchelt

Learning and Events

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

• A winning Kafka partition strategy by Jan Schulte
• The security concerns of a JavaScript sandbox with the Node.js VM module by Liran Tal

In case you haven't yet stumbled across this series: Understanding Docker in a visual way - in video Series' Articles by Aurélie Vache incl. her great sketching art.

Golo's Corner

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

• Clean Code vs Performance: Der große Irrtum?! // deutsch

Developer Experience

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

• Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails by Adam Hess
• INNOQ Technology Lunch: Unterstützende Teamstrukturen für die Cloud-native Transformation
• The Story of Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel on Hanselminutes
• Automate VS Code extensions setup across profiles by Kai Walter

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