Episode 126: 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:

• Kyma 2.12 - Release Notes by Zhoujing Wang and Grzegorz Karaluch
• New Kyma learning journey: Deliver Side-by-Side Extensibility based on SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime

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:

• Serverless in 2023 with Mike Roberts
• Implementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E by David Boyne

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Announcing public preview of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances by Peter Pogorski
• Bring all your workloads to the edge with AKS Edge Essentials. Now Generally Available! by Jason Farmer
• Some Dapr goodness: Dubbo-go Service Proxy Model by Li Zhixin

GitHub & DevOps

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

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects by Mario Rodriguez
• Projects on GitHub Mobile is now generally available
• Adding the ability to close GitHub Discussions
• Comment on files in a pull request (public beta)

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Secret scanning changes to how you opt in to notifications
• Organization Audit Logs include IP addresses – Public Beta

GitHub other topcis

• Introducing the GitHub Markdown Helpers Public Beta
• Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate by Shelley McKinley
• Highlights from Git 2.40 by Taylor Blau
• An open source project to empower OSPOs everywhere by Zack Koppert
  • and the GitHub repo: github-ospo

Misc

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

• Announcing TypeScript 5.0 by Daniel Rosenwasser
• How Microsoft’s bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution by John Roach

And some thing around the AZure Developer CLI:

• Kubernetes on Azure | Azure Dev CLI Community Standup
• 1-click deploys of Python web apps to Azure by Pamela Fox

This week Microsoft put the pedal to the metal when it comes to AI infusion to their portfolio - impressive:

• Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work
• Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4

🐱‍👤 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 Video Podcast 135 - The one with the Refresh Day (Robert Boban)
• Power Platform + SAP - Overview and getting started
• Using Logic App Standard to connect to SAP

Learning and Events

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

• Funktionale Programmierung, DDD und Architektur mit Mike Sperber by Eberhard Wolff and Mike Sperber

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Microsoft Build - hybrid event!
• And if you can't be there, the DSAG Technologietage 2023 Keynotes will be streamed here

Golo's Corner

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

• Nicht nur die Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) ist ein Problem // deutsch - differnet kind of content than usual; I like it!

Developer Experience

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

• Blog Continuous Architecture – Meine Meinung: Meetings maximieren! by Eberhard Wolff
• The Future of Cloud Computing is Developer Experience by Pablo Bermejo
• Duolingo empowers its engineers to be force multipliers for expertise with GitHub Copilot, Codespaces.

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