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Sounds great. Just by the way, I started something like this (free / free of adverts) earlier this month, on a small scale, to scratch my own itch, basically: the "Tech Aloud" podcast → https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/18/tech-aloud-podcast-an-introduction/

Um, well I'll try my best. In a way it's true that it's a solution looking for a problem and I think we are seeing novel ways to use it. I think a problem is that people still associate blockchain with "currencies" and payment. That is a fairly narrow view of an immutable ledger. A project that, in my opinion, gives a glimpse of the direction blockchain will go in is the Baseline Protocol - a joint project between EY, MS and Consensys. I have tried describing it in another comment [1]. But to give a basic idea is that it does not necessarily use blockchain to transfer value, but instead to coordinate two entities. Basically it puts communication between business entities exchanging, for example, supply chain orders on the blockchain. Essentially the blockchain becomes an auditable protocol for communication, reducing technical overhead and making things like adjudication easier. Coca-cola is piloting this: https://medium.com/unibrightio/baselining-the-north-america-coca-cola-… And here is a more technical example of hooking up SAP to order-matching on Ethereum. It's a little basic, but gives an idea. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/21/sap-integration-with-ethereum-mainnet… [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824584

Thanks! There's also Part 2 of that blog post (which doesn't involve CAP): https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/17/learning-rust-with-cap-part-2/ But other than that, I haven't found time to continue with that project. But you can check out my YouTube channel for future endeavours: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFU7a7OMYfcpjtIpu2j47_Q

Yes, sure https://www.sap.com/products/erp/s4hana.html It's quite nice, even though they do some crazy (also cool) stuff with it https://blogs.sap.com/2021/09/30/steampunk-is-going-all-in/

I use gnupg for this because it’s widely used/battle tested https://blogs.sap.com/2022/04/23/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-usin… For anything critical, I try to avoid tools that are neat/cool but developed by small teams or individuals where the maintenance could suddenly disappear, which is common.

I have zero knowledge of how the Dutch railway scheduling system works, nor of the nature of this failure, but SAP has been blogging recently about using Prolog for combinatorical optimization tasks such as the one that may be in use here or in SAP's Advanced Planning [1]. There are also well-known Prolog proponents from NL. [1]: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/03/11/what-you-may-not-know-of-prolog/

As far as I know, Debian does not have any strict policy or dates for when they will stop building and publishing OpenJDK 11 binaries out of the jdk11u branch in the OpenJDK project. The jdk11u branch [1] (the source code) is currently steward by Red Hat, SAP employees and other contributors, and both Red Hat and SAP have a support roadmap, which currently goes until at least 2023 (SAP) [1] and 2024 (Red Hat) [2]. So, Debian is not providing an LTS binary. Debian is producing binaries out of the source code maintained by others. Once jdk11u stops receiving updates, Debian also stops shipping updates, because Debian has no LTS commitment. [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11u [2] https://blogs.sap.com/2021/07/21/support-extension-of-sapmachine-lts/ [3] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013

So, the bytecode instrumentation as post-compilation functional modification tool is pretty interesting. More info here: https://blogs.sap.com/2016/03/09/java-bytecode-instrumentation-using-a… I wonder if there's any 'defense' against this kind of thing.

SAP, one of the largest ERP vendors, is dropping IE support this year for most of their products including legacy ones.[0] And according to SAP, "91% of Forbes Global 2000" are SAP customers.[1] So we can expect enterprises moving to "modern browsers" this year if not done already. I do create B2B apps. Last time I had to support IE11 was 6 years ago. [0]: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/02/internet-explorer-11-will-no-longer-b… [1]: https://www.sap.com/why-sap.html

> With linux, i have reasonable assurance that packages (from main repos) aren't evil Fallacy. https://blogs.sap.com/2020/06/26/attacks-on-open-source-supply-chains-…

I am in a similar situation and was able to disabled Flash's EOL "kill switch" just for this old flash site with a mms.cfg: EOLUninstallDisable=1 EnableAllowList=1 AllowListUrlPattern=https://old-flash-site.com Took inspiration from https://blogs.sap.com/2020/12/10/how-to-keep-enterprise-flash-applicat…

Different priorities. The goal isn't to make beautiful software. The goal is a system flexible enough to meet the users needs. I also think it is a cultural. See SAP's blog entry "Why users might think their SAP user interface is crumby" https://blogs.sap.com/2015/09/15/why-users-might-think-their-sap-user-…

Our colleagues at SAP: https://blogs.sap.com/2018/07/24/sap-cloud-platform-an-open-enterprise… Edit - and Red Hat: https://blog.openshift.com/state-of-serverless-in-kubernetes-knative-a…

I studied computer science with a minor in psychology. It's long ago, but at that time I some courses on the topic of ergonomic design of UIs. Shortly speaking every UI which stops the user from be interrupted in is workflow by waiting or searching is a microstressing event. (Interruptions are the most important of all stressors when working). Many microstressing events leads to stress and stress leads to bad productivity. What can I say? The last 10 years UIs went ergonomically from bad to worse. Loading time of screens are to long nowadays. While loading and rendering the browser typically keeps on moving screen elements around. Each of this movements interrupts the search for the relevant information for the eyes. Each of these movements enforces the eye movements, search for a new object to focus and accomodate its lenses. Nowadays it is in many application not uncommon to have several of these movements in one loading of a page.(This problem comes is actually somehow connected that HTML is a sessionsless protocoll in connection with modern JS which makes increases loading times. Using microservices quite often lead to bad UI because of the uneven loading times). Other problems are coming from opting into gimmicks like using "effects" or to scrolling instead of paging. While scrolling and paging is ok of websites (in most cases), in most business application you want to avoid this because it is coming with the same problems as slow loading and moving elements on the…