Episode 126: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
Tags: sap, azure, serverless, kubernetes
Published: 2023-03-18 15:56:46


# Episode 126: 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:

* [Kyma 2.12 - Release Notes](https://kyma-project.io/blog/2023/3/15/release-notes-212/) by Zhoujing Wang and Grzegorz Karaluch
* New Kyma learning journey: [Deliver Side-by-Side Extensibility based on SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime](https://learning.sap.com/learning-journey/deliver-side-by-side-extensibility-based-on-sap-btp-kyma-runtime)

## 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:

* [Serverless in 2023](https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-us/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/serverless-in-2023) with  Mike Roberts
* [Implementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/implementing-an-event-driven-serverless-story-generation-application-with-chatgpt-and-dall-e/) by David Boyne

### Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

* [Announcing public preview of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/announcing-public-preview-of-confidential-containers-on-azure/ba-p/3755623?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195) by Peter Pogorski
* [Bring all your workloads to the edge with AKS Edge Essentials. Now Generally Available!](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things-blog/bring-all-your-workloads-to-the-edge-with-aks-edge-essentials/ba-p/3765162?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195) by Jason Farmer
* Some Dapr goodness: [Dubbo-go Service Proxy Model](https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/599772) by Li Zhixin 

### GitHub & DevOps

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

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

* [How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects](https://github.blog/2023-03-15-how-the-grafana-alerting-team-scales-their-issue-management-with-github-projects/) by Mario Rodriguez
* [Projects on GitHub Mobile is now generally available](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-14-projects-on-github-mobile-is-now-generally-available/)
* [Adding the ability to close GitHub Discussions](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-14-adding-the-ability-to-close-github-discussions/)
* [Comment on files in a pull request (public beta)](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-14-comment-on-files-in-a-pull-request-public-beta/)

#### GitHub security and Dependabot

* [Secret scanning changes to how you opt in to notifications](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-17-secret-scanning-changes-to-how-you-opt-in-to-notifications/)
* [Organization Audit Logs include IP addresses – Public Beta](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-14-organization-audit-logs-include-ip-addresses-public-beta/)

#### GitHub other topcis

* [Introducing the GitHub Markdown Helpers Public Beta](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-15-introducing-the-github-markdown-helpers-public-beta/)
* [Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate](https://github.blog/2023-03-10-dont-leave-developers-behind-in-the-section-230-debate/) by Shelley McKinley
* [Highlights from Git 2.40](https://github.blog/2023-03-13-highlights-from-git-2-40/) by Taylor Blau
* [An open source project to empower OSPOs everywhere](https://github.blog/2023-03-13-an-open-source-project-to-empower-ospos-everywhere/) by Zack Koppert
  * and the GitHub repo: [github-ospo](https://github.com/github/github-ospo)

### Misc

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

* [Announcing TypeScript 5.0](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-0/?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-5004195) by Daniel Rosenwasser
* [How Microsoft’s bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution ](https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/how-microsofts-bet-on-azure-unlocked-an-ai-revolution/) by John Roach

And some thing around the AZure Developer CLI:

* [Kubernetes on Azure | Azure Dev CLI Community Standup](https://www.youtube.com/live/lXuUpoQ9kpQ?feature=share)
* [1-click deploys of Python web apps to Azure](https://pamelafox.github.io/my-py-talks/iac-deploys/) by Pamela Fox

This week Microsoft put the pedal to the metal when it comes to AI infusion to their portfolio - **impressive**:

* [Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/powerplatform/2023/03/16/power-platform-is-leading-a-new-era-of-ai-generated-low-code-app-development/)
* [Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-microsoft-365-copilot-a-whole-new-way-to-work/)
* [Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4](https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Confirmed-the-new-Bing-runs-on-OpenAI%E2%80%99s-GPT-4)

## 🐱‍👤 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:

* [SAP on Azure Video Podcast 135 - The one with the Refresh Day (Robert Boban)](https://youtu.be/Poo4sX9gv2w)
* [Power Platform + SAP - Overview and getting started](https://youtu.be/1iq_0ZO0C3Y)
* [Using Logic App Standard to connect to SAP](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/integrations-on-azure-blog/using-logic-app-standard-to-connect-to-sap/ba-p/3737354?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195)

## Learning and Events

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

* [Funktionale Programmierung, DDD und Architektur mit Mike Sperber](https://www.youtube.com/live/1ISYi90G-mY?feature=share) by Eberhard Wolff and Mike Sperber

And heads up for upcoming events:

* [Microsoft Build](https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home) - hybrid event!
* And if you can't be there, the *DSAG Technologietage 2023* Keynotes will be streamed [here](https://livestream.kemweb.de/event/dsag1)

## Golo's Corner

As a regular guest and due to the high-quality content here an overview what [Golo Roden](https://twitter.com/goloroden) provided us this week:

* [Nicht nur die Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) ist ein Problem // deutsch](https://youtu.be/2AbAtFSs0Mk) - differnet kind of content than usual; I like it!

## Developer Experience

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

* [Blog Continuous Architecture – Meine Meinung: Meetings maximieren!](https://www.heise.de/blog/Blog-Continuous-Architecture-Meine-Meinung-Meetings-maximieren-7549813.html) by Eberhard Wolff
* [The Future of Cloud Computing is Developer Experience](https://dev.to/peibolsang/the-future-of-cloud-computing-is-developer-experience-g0p) by Pablo Bermejo
* [Duolingo empowers its engineers to be force multipliers for expertise with GitHub Copilot, Codespaces.](https://github.com/customer-stories/duolingo)

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