Episode 93: 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:

• Provisioning and Scaling of the SAP Kyma Runtime
• CAP on Kyma – Now Officially Supported
• The new way to consume Service Bindings on Kyma Runtime

Misc

And here some links from the broader SAP ecosystem:

• Coffee Corner Radio Episode 59 - UI5con Recap
• I want my ERP; what SAP and MTV have in common

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:

• Lessons Learned From Running Serverless In Production For 5 Years

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Kubernetes Gateway API Graduates to Beta
• TOC votes to advance Keptn to the CNCF Incubator
• bom - Create SPDX-compliant Bill of Materials
• Kubernetes Podcast - Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, with Sabine Wolz
• Can You Live without Kubernetes?
• Dapr Community Call 64
• Dapr and Actors:
  • Running actors on Kubernetes with Dapr & Azure Cosmos DB
  • Building IoT solutions with Dapr Actors

GitHub & DevOps

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

• Bicep for Terraform Engineers
• Infracost VSCode Extension
• Tiny but nice GitHub improvements
• Using GitHub Actions to Test Student Code Submissions
• Continuously deploying custom storefronts

Misc

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

• Microsoft open sources Salus software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool
• Azure Resiliency – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Netflix names Microsoft as partner for new consumer subscription plan

And something really huge - the Azure Developer CLI:

• Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd): A faster way to build apps for the cloud
• What is the Azure Developer CLI (azd) Preview?

🐱‍👤 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:

• Leveraging BTP services in Microsoft Power Platform - I like that!
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #101 - The one with the SAP on Azure Summer 2022 reading list

Learning and Events

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

• Awesome Cloud Native Trainings
• DevOps vs. SRE vs. Platform Engineering? The gaps might be smaller than you think
• Zuverlässige Systeme durch die Reduzierung des Blast Radius – INNOQ Technology Lunch
• Designing for Habitability

Golo's Corner

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

• After the introduction to Go, here we go with testing in Go: Testen in Go (Golang) in 90 Minuten // deutsch
• Bun, Deno & Co. – das Ende von Node.js?! // deutsch

Productivity & Developer Experience

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

• What to do when your open source project becomes a community?
• Research: How GitHub Copilot helps improve developer productivity - unfortunately still now news around the criticism from the OS community.

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