DevOps

Continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) is commonly seen as a prerequisite for faster delivery in higher quality, which is especially important for cloud-based products. In this blog post I will look at what this means for ABAP... Read More »

Folks, One does not need a sixth sense to see the dead ABAP code. Like love in the popular song, it’s “all around me and so the feeling grows”. The feeling of intense dislike that is. What is “dead code”? In most cases, dead code used to... Read More »

  Intro When I was searching for any SAP HANA 2.0 inside container, the only thing I was able to find was about SAP HANA Express edition, and some articles on how to pull images from docker hub with express SAP HANA inside. Nothing... Read More »

Every now and then I’ve been asked if abapGit can be used to deploy software to production, while it might be technically possible I heavily discourage doing it. abapGit and CTS SAP Change and Transport System(CTS) is used in ABAP systems to... Read More »

Overview The ancient philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus (530-470 BC) is one of the most important thinkers in history. His philosophy is a good starting point for anyone concerned with change in life. Heraclitus said that life is like a river. The... Read More »

MLOps (from Machine Learning and Operations) refers to the process of managing the production lifecycle of Machine Learning models, including also the concept of collaboration between data scientists, data engineers and IT professionals. The... Read More »

In the on-premise ABAP world, lifecycle and quality processes can be controlled by the ABAP systems themselves. Think of transport routes and jobs to execute different checks. In the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment aka Steampunk, this is no... Read More »

Folks, Get your buzzword bingo cards ready as today we’re talking about DevOps! This blog was inspired by the excellent Coffee Corner podcast episode 43 “DevOps in SAP” where several prominent community members discussed how this applies... Read More »

During the first SAP Online Track, Fatima Silveira and I had the privilege of sharing our newest experiments with extensions on containers, SAP HANA, HDI containers and CI/CD pipelines. This blog post provides some preliminary context and is the... Read More »

In this blog series you will find quotes, backgrounds, suggested further readings and other information related to my latest book SAP HANA 2.0, An Introduction published by SAP Press. As the goal of the book is to provide an introduction, we... Read More »