Episode 137: 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:

• ABAP Cloud – SAP S/4HANA extensibility – May 2023 update by Boris Gebhardt
• Service Accounts easy with SAP BTP, Kyma runtime by Piotr Tesny
• SAP BTP, Kyma runtime Istio based JWT handler – sneak peek by Magdalena Strek
• Removal of Loki-based application logs in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime by Andreas Thaler

• SaaS Self-Onboarding and One-Domain Concept in SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime using CAP by Martin Frick

• Only available internally, but good to know what is coming: SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime modularization framework now on Canary

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:

• GitHub repo for Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps (Private Preview)

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

• Dapr Community Call - May 31st 2023 (#83)
• Dapr - sketchnote
• Dapr Workflows: How to Write Reliable, Fault-Tolerant Applications using Open Source technology by Marc Duiker
• Dapr - Input Binding and Configuration by Martino Bordin

GitHub & DevOps

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

• Terraform - Understanding the Lifecycle Block by Marcel Lupo - also check out the other parts of the series!

GitHub other topics

It was a quiet week when it comes to GitHub announcements, so we go with some news from different topics:

• Highlights from Git 2.41 by Taylor Blau
• Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers by Klint Finley

Misc

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

• Missed that last week, but azd is GA now: Azure Developer CLI (azd) 1.0.0 release by Savannah Ostrowski
• Some azd fun: Make your azd deployments a celebration by Christian Lechner
• This will be a big think imho: Confidential VMs on Azure by Caroline Perez-Vargas
• Introducing Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore by James Codella and Gahl Levy
• Private linking an Azure Container App Environment (May'23 update) by Kai Walter

🐱‍👤 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:

• AI SDK for SAP - Setting up Azure Open AI Resource and testing with Models demo program. by Gopal Nair
• Introducing Bowdark Fuse by James Wood
• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #146 - The one with MaxDB HA on Windows Cluster (Steffen Müller)

Learning and Events

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

• Why You Might Fail With Domain-driven Design (Wordwide Software Architecture Summit 23) by Eberhard Wolff
• Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move by Ian Miell
• Something "different", but interesting: Psychological Safety - was sagt der Psychologe dazu? mit Joseph Pelrine - OOP Special

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Microsoft Build Deutschland in Munich

Golo's Corner

No Monday session due to public holiday and unfortunately no life stream due to technical issues.

Developer Experience

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

• Shameless self-plus: SwitchedOn - Improving Cloud Developer Experience with Christian Lechner
• Create ready-to-code dev boxes using config as code – now in preview by Jordan Matthiesen
• WinGet configuration Preview by Demitrius Nelon

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