Episode 155: myNewsWrap – Microsoft, GitHub and SAP
Welcome to this week's edition of myNewsWrap, news from the world of Microsoft, GitHub, SAP ... and the world in between. The focus of my newsletter is the application development and all things around that can improve our lives as developers.
Let's dive into the news and explore what came up this week that can help us to build better solutions for our customers.
Microsoft Universe
First we take a look at the Microsoft universe and what crossed my path there.
Serverless - Functions, SWA and Azure Container Apps
Apps need to run somewhere and a very convenient way to run them is serverless. What came up this week in this space?
Azure Functions and Static Web Apps (SWA)
- Java on Azure Functions – 2023 Updates | Azure Functions Community Standup
- Top 10 Azure Functions Anti-Patterns by Tsuyoshi Ushio
Azure Container Apps
Dapr
Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything 😉) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
- Dapr Community Call - Oct 18th (#92)
- Dapr v1.12 Release Highlights by Marc Duiker
- Cloud-Native Local Development with Testcontainers and Dapr by Mauricio Salatino
- Dive into Event-Driven Architecture with Dapr by Ahmed Muhi
Developer Platform
This section collects all news touching the topic of a developer platform. Fuzzy term but here you find news on topics that make the life of developers easier beyond pure development be it Infrastructure as Code, GitHub and more like the Azure Developer CLI.
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform on Azure by Thomas Thornton
- How to use If-Else in Terraform by Thomas Thornton
GitHub
GitHub comes with a blast of new features and enhancements every week. Here are my top 3 news (not "5" as it was a bit more quiet this week) from GitHub that you should check out:
- Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry by Jeff Hostetler
- Code scanning with CodeQL supports Go 1.21 by
- Your curated GitHub Universe agenda: AI, ethics, and productivity by Ashley Willis
Want to see all news around GitHub? I recommend to have a look at GitHub's blog site as well as at its change log to get the complete overview.
Azure Developer CLI
Close to my heart as essence of how to make the developer life easier is the Azure Developer CLI. What's up in this area?
- The fastest way to go from local environment to cloud | Azd Community Standup
- Dive into the azd code base: AzureGreg chats with John Aziz about contributing to Open Source with John Aziz hosted by Gregor Suttie
The best of the "rest"
No matter how the structure of this newsletter is crafted, there is always something that does not perfectly fit. This section is dedicated to topics that I think are worth reading but did not fit into the structure from above:
- The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud by Mark Russinovich - this looks really interesting!
- Simplifying development experience and deployment with Azure Kubernetes Service extension in VS Code by Tatsat Mishra
🐱👤 SAP and Microsoft - Combining both worlds
No news from that area this week.
Learning
One important (and imho best part) of the job of a developer is the continuous learning. Here are some interesting learning resources that go beyond vendor-specific technology:
Golo's Corner
One great resource for becoming a better developer and reflecting about our profession is the high-quality content of the native web GmbH by Golo Roden. This week the following topics were on the list:
Make sure to subscribe to Golo's YouTube channels:
And Golo's personal channel with a new series - not IT, but about an important topic that is not too much talk about in the IT world:
Events
And last but not least heads up for these upcoming events:
- INNOQ Technology Day 2023 happening on November 13th
And with this enjoy your weekend and have a successful next week!
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