Episode 143: 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:

• Monitoring the Performance of Outbound Communication in the ABAP Environment in the Cloud by Anke Griesbaum
• SAP CEO Christian Klein is bullish about India, says country is a 'clear winner in next phase of globalisation' by Nidhi Singal

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:

• Update to .NET isolated isolated process Function App SDK types (preview)
• The Business of Serverless with Yan Cui

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Run Containerized Tasks with Jobs in Azure Container Apps
• Kubetools - A Curated List of Kubernetes Tools
• Streamline Network Observability on AKS by Paul Yu
• Announcing Spin v1.4 by Melissa Klein

All things Dapr

• Dapr Community Call #86
• Dapr building block: publish and subscribe
• 11- Dapr - The end by Martino Bordin

GitHub & DevOps

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

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• GitHub Availability Report: June 2023 by Jakub Oleksy
• GitHub Issues & Projects – July 13th update
• Demonstrating end-to-end traceability with pull requests by Philip Holleran

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Code scanning with CodeQL no longer installs Python dependencies automatically for new users
• Introducing passwordless authentication on GitHub.com by Hirsch Singhal

GitHub Actions

• GitHub Actions – OIDC integration with AWS no longer requires pinning of intermediate TLS certificates

GitHub other topics

• Moving from a product to a service mindset by Chris Reddington

Azure Developer CLI

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – July 2023 Release by Savannah Ostrowski - a lot of cool stuff!
• Release Notes on GitHub
• New learning module: Introduction to Azure Developer CLI
• And here is the upcoming community call: Azd Community Standup | Getting your application running on Azure has never been easier!

Misc

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

• Forbes: On AI: Microsoft Copilot Is Going To Be Huge. Here Are 6 Critical Things Every Business Owner Should Know. by Gene Marks
• Supporting educators to empower all students with computing skills by Eric Martinez
• Not only SAP can do a renaming: Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID and some new features coming along Introducing Microsoft Entra ID Recommendations For Identifying ADAL Applications by Den Delimarsky
• Microsoft New AI CoDi is Mind Blowing and Breaking the Internet!

🐱‍👤 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 BTP ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft – Part 2 – using API Management by Martin Pankraz
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #151 - The one with SAP CAP and Azure Cosmos DB (Volker Buzek & Martin Pankraz)

Learning and Events

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

• No cyber resilience without open source sustainability by Mike Linksvayer
• Real-time applications with Azure Web PubSub - Poornima Nayar - NDC Oslo 2023
• Software-Architektur.tv: Arcards - Ein Spiel um Begriffe aus der Software-Architektur

Golo's Corner

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

• REST, GraphQL und gRPC: Der große Vergleich // deutsch
• REST, GraphQL and GRPC: Which? When? Why? // English

Developer Experience

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

• (De)coding conventions by Martin Woodward and Neha Batra
• Dev-optimized, cloud-based workstations—Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available by Anthony Cangialosi

Mental Health

One special section for this edition as the following post of a former SAP Mentor colleague passed my timeline on LinkedIn which I think is very important to share: Breaking Point - Losing My Voice by Gareth Ryan

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