Episode 168: 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 Container Apps

• From Chaos to Clarity: Simplifying Your Networking with Azure Container Apps by Rohit Turambekar
• Choosing the Right Azure Container Solution for Your Application by Ahmed Muhi

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. Here we go what might be worth a look:

• Dapr Community Call - Feb 7th (#98)
• Azure Community Enthusiasts 5th February 2024 Event - Dapr with Marc Duiker

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

• Bicep Community Call - January '24 - v0.25 Release!
• Commit to Control: GitOps & Policy-as-Code using Azure Policy and Terraform
• Terraform and the Art of Small: My Guide to Navigating Smarter, Safer State Management by Orellanaluke

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:

• GitHub Repository Best Practices by Marcel Lupo
• GitHub’s Engineering Fundamentals program: How we deliver on availability, security, and accessibility by Deepthi Rao Coppisetty
• Copilot in GitHub Support is now available! by Ajay Sarkaria
• Code scanning can now be enabled on repositories before they contain CodeQL supported languages
• AppSec is harder than you think. Here’s how AI can help. by Eric Tooley

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

Sad start into the year for azd friends ... no news, no community meeting :-(

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:

• Introduction to Radius by Will Velida
  • and also at the Azure Community Enthusiasts 5th February 2024 Event
• Hands-on with Backstage on Azure: From App Service to Azure DevOps by Engin Diri

🐱‍👤 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 #178 - The one with DSAG Technologietage 2024 (Holger Bruchelt)
• And some interesting repos by Martin Pankraz and friends:
  • DSAG TechXChange 2024 - Microsoft track
  • SAP CAP on Azure App Service Quickstart 🚀

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:

• Of course starting with this weeks DSAG Technology Days 2024 (Technologietage) - all in German
  • Press Release: DSAG-Technologietage 2024 - Vision und Realität zusammenbringen
  • Keynote
• And some community voices talking about the DSAG Technology Days in the Coffee Corner Radio Episode 67 - DSAG Technologietage Review hosted by Martin Fischer with the guests Gregor WOlf and Volker Buzek
• Terraform Provider for SAP BTP 1.0.0 is out!

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:

• My Current Approach To Software Delivery by Sean Killeen

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:

• 2024 wird das Jahr von … // deutsch
• Subdomains vs Bounded-Contexts in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) // deutsch
• Core-, Supporting-, Sub-, WTF-Domains in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) // deutsch

Make sure to subscribe to Golo's YouTube channels:

• German channel

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