Issue 50 18th July 2021

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Event-based triggering Example to Event-Driven Architecture, API approach in S/4 HANA Cloud, Fixing Scrum to 7 Lessons for Digital transformation

Hey folks,

this issue is a special one, it is issue No. 50!

I’d like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for subscribing, spreading the word, and most of all for writing all the amazing content we get to read and share every week. As always, I hope you’ll enjoy reading as much as I did and would appreciate you sharing this newsletter with friends and colleagues.

Software Development is full of changes, so also this service that I´m providing to you. In the Future the newsletter will be sent every couple of weeks (approx. 3-4 weeks). I´d like to increase the quality and therefore have to spend more time on curating posts.

As usual, this newsletter is fully packed with a lot of great Blog Posts. It contains a good distribution among topics, from Event-based triggering Example to Event-Driven Architecture, API approach in S/4 HANA Cloud, Fixing Scrum to 7 Lessons for Digital transformation!

Enjoy this Issue No. 50, and stay tuned for more content!

MODERN ABAP

A Step by Step process to trigger Odata Service to send data based on Event Configuration in SAP HANA

Laxmi jibhe is sharing in this great post an example on how to process to trigger (with Event-based triggering) Odata Service to send data based on Event Configuration in SAP HANA.

Developing API’s in S/4 HANA Cloud

Tushar Pradhan is showing an overview of API´s in S/4 HANA Cloud. A nice post on this topic.

SAP Business Technology Platform – software lifecycle with elements of continuous integration, delivery, and transport management

Jacek Klatt in collaboration with Cameron Swift presenting several possibilities for handling software lifecycle management aspects of solutions built on the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). Especially the mentioned further information could be interesting especially for ABAP Devs...

Compact Feature Availability Matrix of ABAP Programming Models: RAP vs. BOPF vs. Gateway

Andre Fischer is giving us a compact feature availability matrix of different ABAP Programming models and links for further investigation. A good starting point to understand the different models.

Custom Roles and Authorizations in SAP BTP (ABAP STACK)

Vinu Kurian is sharing his experience on custom Roles and Authorizations in SAB BTP (ABAP Stack). An absolute detailed overview based on his usage and research on this important topic.

Thoughts on stable ABAP APIs

Lars Hvam is writing in this post about his thought on ABAP API´s and how he is looking at them.

ABAP are you listening? Apache ActiveMQ is calling

Uwe Fetzer described in his post an example of how Apache ActiveMQ is calling via. Event-Driven Architecture. Just nice and neat to try it out.

Local ABAP exception classes (inside global classes)

Laurens Deprost is sharing his knowledge with a couple of examples about the usage of local ABAP exception classes.

SAP ABAP Development Tools (ADT) – Productive Short Cuts

Ram Bandla is sharing his most used ADT Shortcuts. This should be an inspiration to update your cheatsheet on ADT Shortcuts!

CLEAN CODE, CLEAN ARCHITECTURE and NEW WORK

Seven key lessons on technology and business

McKinsey shares his lessons on their annual IT strategy survey. Seven lessons on how technology transformations can deliver value. How far is your company in any kind of transformation? And even if you managed to do the S/4 Transformation are you enabling the intelligent enterprise to reach your company goals?

Quality - The unknown entity

Uwe Friedrichsen starts a new series about the topic of Quality. which is one of my pet Tech-Topics. He is discussing that quality is subjective and that quality has many dimensions.

Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed?

When Ron Jeffries starts to think about this, Scrum is for sure not only in trouble it cross the border to the bad things that we shouldn´t apply like in the future..

20 Bad Excuses For Not Writing Unit Tests

Philippe Bourgau is showing us 20 bad excuses for not writing unit tests. "We always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don’t we?" - Stephen King

A technology-transformation approach that works

McKinsey is trying to wake up Tech Leaders..For executives looking for lessons in the wake of COVID-19, one has emerged clearly: every company needs to become a tech company.

VIDEOS & PODCASTS

ABAP - Past, Present & Future

A must watch on some SAP Employees that are pushing ABAP for more than 3 decades.

When Test Driven Development Goes Wrong

From my experience, most ABAP Teams are not doing TDD, but when you moved to this advanced Process, it will help you to reduce Bugs and support you to build better Designs. Dave Farley is helping us to do this better, by avoiding bad usage of Test Driven Development.