Ei gudde #sitFRA 2018!
After having participated for the first time on a SAP Inside Track in Munich I am now addicted to SAP community events and decided to give my colleague Hendrik Neumann a visit at the sitFRA in Frankfurt. I have to say my already high expectations because of my experience in Munich have been exceeded.
Let’s start from the beginning
Already a winner! First one at the buffet at #sitFRA pic.twitter.com/F8i2thmmHh
— Conrad Donau (@ConradDonau) 10. März 2018
You can easily deduct how excited I was from the fact that I was the first one on site (or should I say on-premise?). I guess I had an advantage because I couldn’t participate at the CodeJam session and the ComeTogether the evening before…
sitFRA agenda
Together with the slowly arriving participants I’ve started to create a path threw the very interesting agenda. As I couldn’t divide myself and participate in all streams I would like to share some of my personal takeaways from the event. But first take a look at this motivated crowd:
Gooood Morning #SAPInsideTrack @SAPCommunity !!!
😉 At least we tweet the KickOff Selfie before we do the WrapUp – #sitFRA 😉 pic.twitter.com/2J84AAC6xU
— SAP Inside Track FRA (@_sitFRA) 10. März 2018
How to become cloud-native
Christian Lechner started with a brilliant presentation about the obstacles of becoming cloud-native (with SAP). He addressed a very important point: If you want to become cloud-native you shouldn’t (only) think about technology.
@lechnerc77 presentingthe stuff you need to work with you want to be cool. I have to admit, I’m not cool (yet)! ?#sitFRA pic.twitter.com/cHu2p7aBxV
— Martin Fischer (@cyclingfisch) 10. März 2018
The obstacles often are in your organization and in the mindset of the solidified roles. It’s about getting out of your comfort zone and starting to think differently. For example you could start testing in production.
Great summary on cloud native development & organization challenges by @clechner77 #sitfra pic.twitter.com/sMlbAn2XdG
— Daniel Koller (@dakoller) 10. März 2018
Burn him! Burn him! Yes, dear ABAP developer, he really said “test in production”! Cloud-native means deploying fast and often so why not? You can always fix errors in the blink of an eye. Take a look at this slides to see more:
Slides of my #sitFRA talk are available via @SlideShare https://t.co/XJs8Jo7Uq7 #cloudnative @SAPMentors @SAPInsideTrack
— Christian Lechner (@lechnerc77) 10. März 2018
Big ABAP frameworks will die
When Martin Fischer and Tobias Trapp announced big generic frameworks are not state-of-the-art development in ABAP I was really puzzled. For years I was always trying with my colleagues to become more generic to maybe also cover some other use-case which could come in future and now these two guys are telling me I did a bad job?
However they have a valid point: Instead of making things complicated, big and difficult to (automatically…) test it’s better to have a simple and small solution which does the job. That’s some news…
.@cyclingfisch and @ttrapp will now talk about #ABAP state-of-the-art – Do’s and Dont‘s and How to be Successful when going beyond Simple Prototypes #sitFRA pic.twitter.com/T17xzFvSlM
— Christian Drumm ?? (@ceedee666) 10. März 2018
How to apply real life machine learning
Together with Svea Becker we applied some real life hacking machine learning algorithms on ourselves and after some training – it’s best to see the result on video:
Can geeks dance? Yes they can – under the direction of @sveabecker3112 at #sitFRA @SAPMentors are rocking ? dancing ? pic.twitter.com/Exkpnj2MtB
— Malin Liden (@MalinJessica) 10. März 2018
UI-Testing
Christian Schuff showed us a neat framework how you can do automated UI tests using screenshots. Check out his slides for more:
Here are the slides: https://t.co/BNshOH1lRX #sitfra #sapui5 @_sitFRA
— Christian Schuff_ (@christianschuff) 10. März 2018
After BOPF comes BO?
I have to admit I’m slowly starting to understand BOPF and now it’s already deprecated?! Don’t worry says Andre Fischer because the main idea stays the same so it still makes sense to look at BOPF even if BO is coming.
Service development options for #odata v4 by @anfisc at #sitFRA . Taka a close look – #BOPF is not mentioned but #BO ? pic.twitter.com/8EDPqyWOdF
— Christian Lechner (@lechnerc77) 10. März 2018
SAP security is important
I would have never thought a SAP security presentation would be memorable but joris van de Vis did a great job in packing a dry topic into a very enjoyable presentation. SAP security patching is a very underestimated topic and Joris showed us that if your system is not up to date it’s very easy to hack into it. Applying security patches regulary (more often than once a year which from his experience happens quite often) is very important especially if your business relies heavily on the system.
What do you think?
„SAP Netweaver ABAP & Security“
How many might be attracted by this on a Saturday at 5pm?Ha! Do not underestimate the #SAPCommunity !
@jvis in front of a packed room at #sitFRA pic.twitter.com/MKm1An5Q8V
— Christian Braukmüller (@CBasis) 10. März 2018
After SAP knowledge there comes the äppelwoi experience
After listening, talking, thinking, angering, cheering and even dancing about SAP we had the opportunity to calm down with a good äppelwoi and a Frankfurter Schnitzel with green sauce (sounds like boar with mint sauce) it was time to get back home!
Prost #sitFRA ! Have a good way back home. pic.twitter.com/6JOYI3leU3
— mpontjakova (@MPontjakova) 10. März 2018
Big thanks
I would like to thank all the organizers for a perfectly organized event!–
Many thanks for putting all this effort in arranging this inside track! Very much appreciated #sitFRA pic.twitter.com/ratStht1PH
— Arnaut (@akamhoot) 10. März 2018
For us it was an amazing event and we’re ready for the next one!
Power @Reply_DE at #sitFRA ! Thanks a lot! So much fun and learned so much! pic.twitter.com/2cg2gOUd98
— Conrad Donau (@ConradDonau) 10. März 2018