Episode 133: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
Tags: sap, azure, serverless, kubernetes
Published: 2023-05-06 07:13:12


# Episode 133: 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:

* [Surviving and Thriving with CAP: Destinations and the Transparent Proxy for Kubernetes](https://blogs.sap.com/2023/05/04/surviving-and-thriving-with-cap-destinations-and-the-transparent-proxy-for-kubernetes/) by Maximilian Streifeneder
* [DSAG Investment Report 2023: S/4HANA continues to grow, industry strategy under criticism](https://dsag.de/presse/dsag-investment-report-2023-s-4hana-continues-to-grow/)

## 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:

* [Announcing a new version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant with support for .NET MAUI and Azure Functions!](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant-general-availability/?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195) by Olia Gavrysh
* From Serverless to monolith: [Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%](https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90) by Marcin Kolny

Of course the blog post got some discussion, so here two valuable Twitter threads on it by:

* [Sam Newman](https://twitter.com/samnewman/status/1654432661337788416?s=20)
* [Kelsey Hightower](https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1654098279116992513?s=20)

### Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

* [Getting Started with Dedicated Workload profiles for Azure Container Apps](https://www.willvelida.com/posts/getting-started-with-workload-profile-container-apps/) by Will Velida
* KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 [YouTube Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2PyrvCoOii4rAopBswfz1p7)
* [Building Fault-Tolerant Distributed Apps with a Vendor-Agnostic Tech Stack](https://blog.devops.dev/building-fault-tolerant-distributed-apps-with-a-vendor-agnostic-tech-stack-f32500eb450e) by Gabriel Guerra
* [Lessons learnt from creating platforms on Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/live/lTwCQMzDD3E?feature=share&t=4024) by Mauricio Salatino and Salman Iqbal
* [Dapr Community Call 81](https://youtu.be/BEXJgLsO4hA)
* [Create Dapr pluggable components using .NET](https://youtu.be/L0RRnWfGCzo)

### GitHub & DevOps

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

* [Public Preview of Azure Automation extension for Visual Studio Code](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-governance-and-management/public-preview-of-azure-automation-extension-for-visual-studio/ba-p/3717230?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195) by JaspreetKaur

#### GitHub in general (issues, discussions etc.)

* [GitHub Availability Report: April 2023](https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-april-2023/) by Jakub Oleksy

#### GitHub security and Dependabot

* [Doppler is a GitHub secret scanning partner](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-05-03-doppler-is-a-github-secret-scanning-partner/)
* [Manage your application security stack effectively with the tool status page](https://github.blog/2023-05-04-manage-your-application-security-stack-effectively-with-the-tool-status-page/) by Walker Chabbott and Alona Hlobina
* [Dependabot relieves alert fatigue from npm devDependencies](https://github.blog/2023-05-02-dependabot-relieves-alert-fatigue-from-npm-devdependencies/) by Eric Tooley

#### GitHub other topics

* [Codespaces Settings Sync Updates](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-05-04-codespaces-settings-sync-updates/)
* [Mutual connections now available on user profile](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-05-03-mutual-connections-now-available-on-user-profile/)
* [Web Summit Rio 2023: Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X](https://github.blog/2023-05-05-web-summit-rio-2023-building-an-app-in-18-minutes-with-github-copilot-x/)

### Misc

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

* [Elastic Scaling and new Memory Optimized SKUs for App Service | Azure App Service Community Standup](https://www.youtube.com/live/-g05S-B8AM4?feature=share)

## 🐱‍👤 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:

* [Power Platform + SAP - Creating Business Partners from Power App](https://youtu.be/Lbjm91BTBRk) by Holger Bruchelt
* [Microsoft Power Platform: More Than Just a Toy](https://switchedon.bowdark.com/microsoft-power-platform-more-than-just-a-toy-1c47ced1fa4) by James Wood
* SwitchedOn: [Microsoft Copilot Roundtable with Dawn Clark and Lori Beck](https://switched-on-with-james-wood-and-paul-modderman.simplecast.com/episodes/microsoft-copilot-roundtable-with-dawn-clark-and-lori-beck)
* [SAP on Azure Video Podcast #142 - The one with Power Platform and Single Sign-On (Martin Raepple)](https://youtu.be/PM2vNriPlT0)

## Learning and Events

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

* [Systems Thinking for Dev Organizations](https://www.youtube.com/live/P1Nd1LK5LNw?feature=share&t=20093) by Lian Li
* [WebAssembly: A Recovering Kubernetes Engineer's View of the Future](https://www.youtube.com/live/P1Nd1LK5LNw?feature=share&t=22435) by Taylor Thomas
* As AI is top of mind: [Schnellcheck für KI-Produkte: Das 3-Canvas Toolkit](https://www.youtube.com/live/kVYcbsudf8A?feature=share) by Larysa Visengeriyeva

And heads up for upcoming events:

* [Architect and deploy production-scale Container Apps | Azure Container Apps Community Standup](https://www.youtube.com/live/6lN0JG7QwJU?feature=share)
* [The new Node.js programming model | Azure Functions Community Standup](https://www.youtube.com/live/CPGevqwNNBk?feature=share)

## Golo's Corner

As Monday was public holiday,no new video by Golo

## Developer Experience

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

* All Azure SDK Releases across all languages: [Azure SDK Releases](https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk/)
* Interesting: [Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale](https://testing.googleblog.com/2023/04/sensenmann-code-deletion-at-scale.html) by Phil Norman

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