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Episode 159: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft |
2023-11-18 |
Weekly news update from the SAP and Microsoft universe. |
azure, github ,sap ,serverless |
myNewsWrap - SAP and Microsoft |
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.
First we take a look at the Microsoft universe and what crossed my path there.
Of course this weeks prominent topic in the Microsoft universe ... Microsoft Ignite and the announcements:
- Full Keynote: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023
- MICROSOFT IGNITE - BOOK OF NEWS
- The age of copilots
- Cloud Native Innovations with Mark Russinovich | Studio41
Apps need to run somewhere and a very convenient way to run them is serverless. What came up this week in this space?
- Azure Functions - Ignite 2023 update by Eamon O'Reilly
- GA: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model - the Azure Functions team sticks to their promise
- Azure Functions brings new flexibility with scale, VNet and long execution time aka Flex Consumption Plan
- GA: Stateful entities in Durable Functions on the isolated worker model for .NET
- Build Intelligent Apps and Microservices with Azure Container Apps by Daria Grigoriu
- Resiliency policies now available in Azure Container Apps by Nick Greenfield
- Public preview: Azure Container Apps adds native support for CNCF Buildpacks to automatically containerize your code
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:
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.
- Understanding Terraform Dependencies on Azure - Terraform on Azure Part 5 by Ahmed Muhi
- Testing Framework in Terraform 1.6: A deep-dive
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:
- Universe’s key takeaway: Innovate better with AI-powered workflows on a single, unified platform by Inbal Shani
- Security best practices for authors of GitHub Actions by Matthew Manning
- GitHub Availability Report: October 2023 by Jakub Oleksy
- Dependabot will no longer automatically re-run failed jobs when package manifest changes
- Dependabot auto-triage rules support CVE IDs and GHSA IDs
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.
Close to my heart as essence of how to make the developer life easier is the Azure Developer CLI. What's up in this area?
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – November 2023 Release by Savannah Ostrowski
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:
- .NET Aspire seems to be a very intersting topic:
- AKS Welcomes you to Ignite 2023 by Jorge Palma
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 #168 - The one with the November Events (Goran Condric & Holger Bruchelt)
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.
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:
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:
Make sure to subscribe to Golo's YouTube channels:
And Golo's personal channel with a new series - not IT, but about an important topic that is not too much talk about in the IT world:
And last but not least heads up for these upcoming events:
- KubeCon Chicago Key Takeaways by Daniel Bryant
- Cloud Native Weekly - Ep 21 - Recapping Kubecon NA 23!
And with this enjoy your weekend and have a successful next week!