Episode 138: 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:

• SAP BTP, Kyma runtime ORY Hydra OAuth2 Client migration by Magdalena Strek
• SAP BTP ABAP Environment on Microsoft Azure by Frank Jentsch
• well, well, well: SAP verliert KI-Chefin – Feiyu Xu will lieber ein Start-up gründen

Microsoft Universe

Now let's look at the Microsoft universe.

Azure Functions/Serverless

• Connect your Static Web Apps to Azure Databases using REST or GraphQL | Azure Friday
• The Durable Functions SDK for PowerShell is now in the PowerShell Gallery by David Justo

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Azure Container Apps Newsletter – June 2023 by Anthony Chu
  • and the corresponding YouTube stream Build 2023 recap and deep dive on jobs | Azure Container Apps Community Standup
• Unleashing the Power of Microservices | William Liebenberg | User Group
• 6 -Dapr - Service invocation & Pub/sub by Martino Bordin
• Changelog Interviews – Episode #543 ANTHOLOGY — It's a Cloud Native world - I think there is some Dapr in that episode
• Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • Mauricio Salatino & Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2023
• Containerize and deploy your app with automated deployments for AKS | Azure Friday

GitHub & DevOps

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

GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

• Code search now requires login
• Security enhancements to required approvals on pull requests

GitHub security and Dependabot

• How developers use automation to innovate and secure software

GitHub Actions

• Announcing the Stale Repos Action by Zack Koppert

GitHub other topics

• Applying GitOps principles to your operations by Chris Reddington
• Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love by Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Kara Sowles

Misc

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

• Unlock new insights with Azure OpenAI Service for government by Bill Chappell
• Azure SDK for Go Fundamentals | Azure SDK Community Standup
• Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - June 2023

🐱‍👤 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 ... well, no news this week.

Learning and Events

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

• Cloud-Native & Sustainability: How and Why to Build Sustainable Workloads by Nico Meisenzahl
• Free Microsoft Course: Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum

Golo's Corner

Vacation time

Developer Experience

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

• Developer experience: what is it and why should you care? by Gwen Davis
• Announcing C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code by Tim Heuer
• Announcing TypeScript 5.1 by Daniel Rosenwasser

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