Episode 86: 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.

Business Technology Platform Core - Kyma

Let's see what happened around Kyma:

• Migration from Service Catalog to SAP BTP Service Operator
• Where did my API- and Event metadata go

Microsoft Universe

Now let's look at the Microsoft universe. As this week Microsoft Build took place, let's us see what was announced there:

Microsoft Build

First the "must see" topics:

• Microsoft Build 2022 - Hompage with Keynote
• Microsoft Build 2022 - 10 technologies coming together to help you build what’s next - Blog Post by Satya Nadella
• Microsoft Build 2022 - BOOK OF NEWS

You find the detailed announcement in the following sections marked as "Announced at Build 2022:".

And here another point of view on the announcements at Microsoft Build:

• MS Build 2022 Announcements by James Cook

With that let's continue with what remains as news that was not prominently announced at Microsoft Build.

Azure Functions/Serverless

Here is what happened this week in the serverless space like Azure Functions and Static Web Apps:

• Generally available: Updated extension defaults for new Azure Functions projects
• Generally available: Dynamic concurrency in Azure Functions
• Public preview: JavaScript and Python support in Azure SQL bindings
• Public preview: Durable functions support for isolated .NET worker process
• Public preview: Durable functions support for managed identity for Azure Storage
• Public preview: Azure Functions .NET Framework support in the isolated worker model
• A coding pitfall in implementing dependency injection in .NET azure functions
• New tips & tricks for your Azure Static Web Apps

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Announced at Build 2022: Generally available: Azure Container Apps
  • A bit more infos: Azure Container Apps General Availability
• Quick Guide to Azure Container Apps
• Samples for Azure Container Apps
• Kubernetes 1.24 and Service Accounts
  • CHANGELOG-1.24 -> Search for LegacyServiceAccountTokenNoAutoGeneration
• Announced at Build 2022: Public preview: KEDA add-on for AKS
• Announced at Build 2022: Public preview: Web application routing add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Dapr extension for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Arc-enabled Kubernetes
• GA: Azure Key Vault secrets provider extension for Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters

GitHub & DevOps

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

• Announcing General Availability for GitOps with Flux v2 in Azure
• How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
• Improved REST API documentation
• Secret scanning alert events now in the audit log
• npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
• GitHub Actions: Re-run jobs with debug logging
• GitHub Sponsors launches in India

Misc

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

• Announced at Build 2022: Announcing Service Bus Explorer for Azure portal public preview
• Announced at Build 2022: Announced at Microsoft Build: New features for scalable, cost-effective application development
• Announced at Build 2022: Introducing Microsoft Dev Box
• Announced at Build 2022: Introducing Project Volterra (Satya Nadella 2022 Build Keynote)
• gRPC support on Azure App Service
• Introducing the redesigned Azure extensions for VS Code

🐱‍👤 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 Podcast #94 - The one with SAP on Azure for regulated industries (Ben Lennon, John Sommer)

Learning and Events

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

• Go, from the beginning - free book
• INNOQ Podcast - Software Supply Chain Security
• Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices with Holly Cummins
• Azure skills navigator - the new developer's "Guide to the Cloud"Markdown: An option to highlight a "Note" and "Warning" using blockquote (Beta)

Golo's Corner

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

• SICP.js #2: So strukturierst Du Code richtig // deutsch

Productivity & Developer Experience

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

• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
• Windows Terminal Preview 1.14 Release
• Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience, and preparation
• Creating a popular OSS library is a marathon, not a sprint

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