Episode 140: 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

Nothing crossed my path this week from the SAP side of the house

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:

• Azure Functions Newsletter – June 2023 by Thiago Almeida
  • and the YouTube Community Standup Azure Functions Community Standup | Microsoft Build updates!
• Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) Bindings for Azure Functions - Public Preview by Ramachandran G
• Monitor Azure Functions with Azure Monitor Application Insights
• Azure SWA Community Standup | Dynamic Full-Stack Web Apps with Hosted Hybrid Rendering Frameworks
• Smart and efficient ways to test serverless architectures by Yan Cui

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, Bicep, Managed Certificates and Custom Domains by John Reilly
• Cloud-Native Snapshots Reports (Monthly) by Mauricio Salatino - thanks for making this available for everyone!
• Cloud Native Weekly - Ep 3 - Avada ‘KEDA’vra

All things Dapr

• Updated for Dapr 1.11: Understanding the Dapr Workflow engine & authoring workflows in .NET by Marc Duiker
• 8 - Dapr - Secret management by Martino Bordin

GitHub & DevOps

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

• Terraform 1.5 brings config-driven import and checks by Dan Barr
• Automating Terraform Documentation with Terraform-Docs and Azure DevOps by Marcel Lupo

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• GitHub Issues & Projects – June 22nd update
• Crafting a better, faster code view by Joshua Brown

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Organization-level code scanning default setup for CodeQL is now generally available
• Use GitHub code search to support security research with multi-repository variant analysis for CodeQL (beta)

GitHub other topics

• Bridging code and community by Martin Woodward
• G2 Grid® Report for DevOps Platforms

Misc

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

• What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer | Featuring Mark Russinovich by Zachary Cavanell

• Introducing Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data in Public Preview by Andy Beatman

• ... and Martin Pankraz and me had the honor to give a talk at the Azure Meetup Rosenheim about the Azure Developer CLI: "azd up" - one command to rule them all

🐱‍👤 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:

• Microsoft AI SDK for SAP Update: V2.0 - Embeddings & Open AI Integration by Gopal Nair
• SAP BTP ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft – Part 1 by Martin Pankraz
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #148 - The one with Visual Studio and Power Platform (Robert Boban)

Learning and Events

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

• The Future of WebAssembly Through the Eyes of a Veteran Kubernetes Engineer by Taylor Thomas
• The Week in Green Software: Open Source Innovations with Tom Greenwood
• The Airline Industry’s Problem with Absolutely Ancient IT

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Innoq Technology Lunch: Ökologisch nachhaltige Softwareentwicklung
• Kubernetes Community Days Munich

Golo's Corner

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

• Die beste Architektur für Deine Software // deutsch
• The best architecture for your software // English

Developer Experience

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

• Best practices for prompting GitHub Copilot in VS Code by Pamela Fox
• How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases by Rizel Scarlett and Michelle Mannering

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