Episode 156: 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)

• Migrating to v4 Azure Functions Node.js with TypeScript by John Reilly
• Durable Entities support in the .NET isolated worker model is now in preview!
• Java on Azure Functions - 2023 Update by Sonia Kulkarni
• This Month In Azure Static Web Apps | October 2023 by Thomas Gauvin
• Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup - Announcing Traffic Splitting and Snippets

Although coined to AWS, a lot of stuff can be transfered to Azure: Save money on Serverless: common costly mistakes and how to avoid them by Yan Cui

Azure Container Apps

No news on Azure Container Apps crossed my path this week.

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. No news in this area for this week

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

How could I miss this great YT channel Azure Terraformer by Mark Tinderholt? Subscription recommended!

• HashiConf Wrap-up: October Livestream
• HashiConf 2023: Terraform Roadmap and Commentary Part 1 / 2 by Mark Tinderholt
• TERRAFORM STACKS announced at HashiConf 2023!!! by Mark Tinderholt
• Extensive article: A Comprehensive Guide to Testing in Terraform: Keep your tests, validations, checks, and policies in order by Mattias Fjellström

GitHub

GitHub comes with a blast of new features and enhancements every week. Here are my top 5 news from GitHub that you should check out:

• Developers are the first group to adopt AI at work. Here’s why that matters. by Kyle Daigle
• Dependabot user-defined rules for security updates and alerts; enforcement of auto-triage rules and presets for organizations (public beta)
• Secret scanning scans public npm packages
• Streamline Your Workflow with GitHub Desktop by Sarah Lean
• 5 tips for making your GitHub profile page accessible by Annie Streater

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?

• New release 1.4.3 ... x.x.3 release, is Ignite looking around the corner?
• Azure User Group Sweden: Azure Developer CLI: "azd up" - One command to rule them all by Martin Pankraz and Christian Lechner

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:

• My annual letter: Leading in a new era by Satya Nadella

Quite some articles around project Radius landed this week ... one is tempted to say that this project has quite some blast radius ;-)

• Microsoft Reimagines Modern Application Deployment With Radius Platform by Janakiram MSV
• Giving Microsoft’s Radius a spin by Geert Baeke
• Working with Recipes and Gateways in Microsoft’s Radius by Geert Baeke

🐱‍👤 SAP and Microsoft - Combining both worlds

Combining Microsoft with SAP can lead to incredible new applications. Let's enter the twilight zone (no worries the ninja cat is with us) between SAP and Microsoft and see what's up here:

• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #165 - The one with Configuration Editor with SDAF (Kimmo Forss & Hemanth Damecharla)

And of course a channel that you should subscribe to if you are working with SAP and Microsoft is the SAP on Azure hosted by Holger Bruchelt and friends.

Further news from the SAP world

Let's check out what else happened in the SAP universe that you should check out:

• Happy birthday ABAP - 40 years and still growing strong: The ABAP Story

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:

• 2023 State of DevOps Report: Culture is everything by Derek DeBellis and Nathen Harvey

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:

• So kommst Du beruflich weiter! // deutsch

• Live Stream: Raus aus dem Brownfield: Refactor + Test! // deutsch
  Make sure to subscribe to Golo's YouTube channels:

• German channel

• English channel

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:

• Digital Detox: So viele Tage verschwendet … (wie Du Deine Bildschirmzeit verringerst) // deutsch

Events

And last but not least heads up for these upcoming events:

• Happening already next week: SAP TechEd virtual and in Bangalore
• GitHub Universe
• Microsoft Ignite

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