Episode 129: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
Tags: sap, azure, serverless, kubernetes
Published: 2023-04-08 08:43:49


# Episode 129: 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:

* [The 2023 SAP Developer Insights Survey Report Is Out!](https://blogs.sap.com/2023/04/04/the-2023-sap-developer-insights-survey-report-is-out/)
* [Multitenant SaaS applications on SAP BTP using CAP? SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime!](https://blogs.sap.com/2023/04/05/multitenant-saas-applications-on-btp-using-cap-sap-btp-kyma-runtime/) by Martin Frick
  * and the corresponding GitHub repo: [Develop a multitenant Software as a Service application in SAP BTP using CAP](https://github.com/SAP-samples/btp-kyma-cap-multitenant-susaas)
* [SAP Cloud SDK and its relationship with SAP Cloud Application Programming Model](https://blogs.sap.com/2023/04/04/sap-cloud-sdk-and-its-relationship-with-sap-cloud-application-programming-model/) by Milton Chandradas 

and still some DSAG Technologietage aftermath:

* [SAP überbrückt On-Premises und Cloud](https://www.cloudcomputing-insider.de/sap-ueberbrueckt-on-premises-und-cloud-a-fd6ca7f919de01da634c91d39deb11df/)
* [DSAG-Technologietage 2023: Die Realität berücksichtigen](https://www.it-daily.net/it-management/erp-sap/dsag-technologietage-2023-die-realitaet-beruecksichtigen)
* [SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud](https://www-theregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/23/germanspeaking_users_ask_sap_for/)
* [Users slam SAP's public cloud and S/4HANA migration strategy](https://www-theregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/04/05/sap_s4_hana_cloud_strategy/)

and some comment on the upcoming changes in the SAP board: [Schlangengrube SAP](https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/der-vorstand-des-softwarekonzerns-sap-wirkt-wie-eine-schlangengrube-18792117.html)

## 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:

* [#ThisMonthInSWA - March 2023](https://dev.to/azure/thismonthinswa-march-2023-gnm)
* [Hosting a React application with a subpath on Azure Static Web Apps](https://blog.thomasgauvin.com/react-swa-with-subpath) by Thomas Gauvin
* [Enhanced Hybrid Next.js Support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure Friday](https://youtu.be/68CFn-EkkNM) by Reshmi Sriram and Scott Hanselman

### Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

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

* [Kubernetes 1.27 – What’s new?](https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-1-27-whats-new/) by  V. J. Cerrada (sysdig)
* [Creating Dapr-enabled Platforms with Kratix](https://blog.dapr.io/posts/2023/04/02/creating-dapr-enabled-platforms-with-kratix/) by Mauricio Salatino
* [Running Dapr in production with confidence](https://youtu.be/88VJZ0K09PM)
* [Dapr Community Call 80](https://youtu.be/kVpQYkGemRc) - Conductor looks really good.

And a call to action - The [KEDA user Survey](https://twitter.com/kedaorg/status/1643560659991314433?s=20)

### GitHub & DevOps

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

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

* [GitHub Issues & Projects – April 6th update](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-04-06-github-issues-projects-april-6th-update/)
* [GitHub Availability Report: March 2023](https://github.blog/2023-04-05-github-availability-report-march-2023/)

#### GitHub security and Dependabot

* [Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise](https://github.blog/2023-04-03-level-up-monitoring-and-reporting-for-your-enterprise/) by Jim Boyle and Jessi Moths

#### GitHub Actions

* [Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions](https://github.blog/2023-04-05-building-organization-wide-governance-and-re-use-for-ci-cd-and-automation-with-github-actions/) by Chris Reddington

#### GitHub other topics

* [Redesigned navigation available in Public Beta](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-04-05-redesigned-navigation-available-in-public-beta/) - I can recommend to activate that beta feature!
* [What’s new with GitHub Sponsors](https://github.blog/2023-04-04-whats-new-with-github-sponsors/) by Jessica Lord
* [Calling all open source maintainers](https://github.blog/2023-04-03-calling-all-open-source-maintainers/) by Abby Cabunoc Mayes

### Misc

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

* [Get insights from customer interactions with Azure Communication Services and Azure OpenAI Service](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-communication-services/get-insights-from-customer-interactions-with-azure-communication/ba-p/3783858?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5004195) by David de Matheu
* [Private linking and port forwarding to non-Azure resources](https://dev.to/kaiwalter/private-linking-and-port-forwarding-to-non-azure-resources-5h0f)

## 🐱‍👤 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 #138 - The one with Azure Open AI and SAP S/4HANA (Chan Jin Park)](https://youtu.be/GeY2haei_kw)
* [Power Platform + SAP - Installing the On-premises Data Gateway](https://youtu.be/yp_yLlHNRVw) by Holger Bruchelt

## Learning and Events

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

* [A winning Kafka partition strategy](https://dev.to/ciscoemerge/a-winning-kafka-partition-strategy-54lg) by Jan Schulte
* [The security concerns of a JavaScript sandbox with the Node.js VM module](https://snyk.io/blog/security-concerns-javascript-sandbox-node-js-vm-module/) by Liran Tal

In case you haven't yet stumbled across this series: [Understanding Docker in a visual way - in video Series' Articles](https://dev.to/aurelievache/series/15506) by Aurélie Vache incl. her great sketching art.

## 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:

* [Clean Code vs Performance: Der große Irrtum?! // deutsch](https://youtu.be/mjR5fy1tcA0)

## Developer Experience

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

* [Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails](https://github.blog/2023-04-06-building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/) by Adam Hess
* INNOQ Technology Lunch: [Unterstützende Teamstrukturen für die Cloud-native Transformation](https://www.youtube.com/live/rid2eNtlkuc?feature=share)
* [The Story of Visual Studio Code with Erich Gamma and Kai Maetzel](https://www.hanselminutes.com/886/the-story-of-visual-studio-code-with-erich-gamma-and-kai-maetzel) on Hanselminutes
* [Automate VS Code extensions setup across profiles](https://dev.to/kaiwalter/automate-vs-code-extensions-setup-across-profiles-4bc2) by Kai Walter

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