SAP Devtoberfest Has Everything

In 1987, Guns N' Roses were the opening act for The Cult’s "Electric" tour. Who the heck is The Cult, you ask? Exactly.

SAP Devtoberfest is quickly becoming the Guns N' Roses to the main TechEd act on their weird 2024 “world tour” and we’re witnessing history being made, folks. The event is still in progress but here are my highlights so far.

• Forms rarely get much love at these events, even though developers deal with them a lot. Plainly named SAP Forms by Adobe didn’t disappoint, make sure to tune in for some updates on what’s going to be supported going forward.
• As you know from a previous story, I was looking forward to Understand the clean core extensibility options for Cloud ERP session. It’s an OK session, don’t get me wrong. But after fast-forwarding through a good half of it I feel there ought to be the separate sessions for “I’ve been living under the rock for 5 years” and “I just want to see what’s new and improved” audiences.
• The developers looking to skill up on ABAP RAP will find fewer slides and more code in the Clean Core Extensibility with ABAP Cloud in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. Hope that the presenters will share the respective code, as many others requested. I’d love to dig deeper into some parts that were walked over and I bet many people would suggest some code quality improvements, cough.
• The best session of the event is hiding under the boring name Data Modeling with the latest features of ABAP Core Data Services. I hope this presentation style catches on because it’s effective, fun, and closest to how developers learn from each other in real life. Plus, there are updates from the CDS world that you don’t want to miss. Very nicely done!

To follow the past and future sessions, use this calendar or YouTube playlist. The calendar format is better organized by track (=subject/theme), it’s what I mainly use. JP

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