Episode 139: 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:

• Farewell, Neo! SAP BTP, multi-cloud environment – the deployment environment of choice by Michael Ameling

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 ... no news this week

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, Easy Auth and .NET authentication by John Reilly
• Use Container App Jobs for scaling Devops Build Agents by Florian Lutz
• New Tutorial: Tutorial: Deploy self-hosted CI/CD runners and agents with Azure Container Apps jobs

All things DAPR

• Dapr v1.11 is now available
• 7 -Dapr - Pub/sub & Output Binding by Martino Bordin
• How to upgrade your local Dapr runtime and CLI by Marc Duiker
• Dapr v1.11.0 now available in the Dapr extension for AKS and Arc-enabled Kubernetes by Hannah Hunter
• Dapr Community Call - June 14th 2023 (#84)
• Easily create Dapr components and connect to Azure services by Hannah Hunter
• Building Portable Event-Driven Applications with Dapr by Alice Gibbons and Mark Fussel

GitHub & DevOps

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

• Bicep param files now available, upgrade to v0.18.4! by Freek Berson

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta by Justin Young
• GitHub Issues & Projects – June 15th update
• GitHub Availability Report: May 2023 by Jakub Oleksy

GitHub security and Dependabot

• CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL by Sylwia Budzynska

GitHub Actions

• GitHub Actions – Securing OpenID Connect (OIDC) token permissions in reusable workflows

GitHub other topics

• Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot by Kate Higa and Kendall Gassner
• Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer by Tim Rogers and Melody Mileski
• Codespaces and Copilot by April Edwards

Misc

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

• Azd Community Standup | The Azd is now generally available! - there are some cool things coming up for azd!

🐱‍👤 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:

• What’s new: Sentinel Solution for SAP BTP by Will King
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #147 - The one with HANA scale-out N+N Architectures (Abbas Ali Mir & Momin Qureshi)

Learning and Events

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

• Not new, but worth to take alook at: Green Software Foundation

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Azure Meetup Rosenheim: Azure Developer CLI: "azd up" - one command to rule them all
• INNOQ Technology Night: Observability in Java und Domain-driven Design

Golo's Corner

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

• German version Apple Vision Pro: Revolutionär oder unnötig? // deutsch
• English Version Apple Vision Pro: Revolutionary or just useless? // English

Developer Experience

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

• Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience by Inbal Shani

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