Episode 132: 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 2.13.x also check the pre-release infos
• Developing multi-tenant SaaS applications easy with SAP BTP, Kyma runtime. by Piotr Tesny
• Developing an Application on SAP Cloud Foundry Runtime and SAP Kyma Runtime: A Comparative Analysis by Alper Dedeoglu

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:

• Build dynamically scalable event-driven services using Azure Cosmos DB extension for Azure Functions by Matias Quaranta

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

• KubCon aftermath: It's about the people, it's about Open Source by Mauricio Salatino

GitHub & DevOps

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

GitHub security and Dependabot

• Git security vulnerabilities announced by Taylor Blau

GitHub Actions

• GitHub Actions Importer Feature Flags
• GitHub Actions: macOS 13 is now available
• GitHub Actions: Faster macOS runners are now available in open public beta!

GitHub other topics

• Try our new expandable event payload view in your audit log – Private Beta
• Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO by Kyle Daigle
• One Click Into GitHub Codespaces

Misc

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

• Introducing cloud.microsoft: a unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services
• Azure Logic Apps Community Standup - April 2023
• Introducing Azure OpenAI Code Repository: Your Gateway to Harnessing the Power of Generative AI by Shubhendu Satsangi
• Transparenz über Cloudkosten: Microsoft unterstützt OpenCost

🐱‍👤 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 private linky swear with Azure – enabling SAP CAP with Azure services without OData APIs using SAP Private Link by Martin Pankraz
• Power Platform + SAP - Creating a Power App accessing SAP via Power Automate and SAP ERP Connector by Holger Bruchelt
• AI SDK for SAP ABAP - Learning Series - Part 1: Initial Setup by Gopal Nair
• The era of AI: How the Microsoft Cloud is accelerating AI transformation across industries by Judson Althoff
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #141 - The one with updates on HA with SAP on Azure (Ralitza Deltcheva)

Learning and Events

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

• thoughtworks Technology Radar - new version is out
• Microsoft Prompt engineering techniques
• Die Welt vor 10 Jahren mit Stefan Tilkov - live von der RheinJUG with the legends Eberhard Wolff and Stefan Tilkov
• Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio pt. 2 by Philip Welz
• todo:cast - Developer Podcast Folge 61: Multi-Repo vs. Mono Repo
• Getting Certified as Kubernetes App Developer: My Kaizen Journey by Chun Lin

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Upcoming Azure Meetup Rosenheim Pulumi & Azure: Der Turbo-Boost für deine Cloud-Projekte
• And do not forget about Microsoft Build

Golo's Corner

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

• Node.js 20: Nie wieder unsicherer Code?! // deutsch

Developer Experience

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

• CLI tricks every developer should know by Kedasha Kerr
• I love that one: every cloud architecture

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