Monthly Archive: October 2022

OData – Back to basics?

The title is somewhat misleading – but nevertheless it’s a great way to kickstart OData. This are the notes on “Back to basics: OData – the Open Data Protocol” by DJ Adams. For an overview on OData see: SAP Community: Daniel Purucker – Howto OData – High level overview Community-Site: https://community.sap.com/topics/gateway CAP: https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/ OData specification: https://www.odata.org/ MS Learn OData: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/odata/...

Linux Init processes – and zfs autoimport

Collection of resources on Linux init-demons. It covers the (historical) demons system V, and upstart, as well as the current one: systemd: see digitalocean.com – How To Configure a Linux Service to Start Automatically After a Crash or Reboot – Part 1: Practical Examples However as stated, systemd is “more than an init daemon: systemd is a framework that encompasses...

Good to know: Linux services and Docker

Docker and Unix services As a general rule of thumb there is one docker container for each service. It’s like a mantra echoing in the internet to separate concerns and to follow the Unix design principle of doing one thing, and doing one thing right (see Wikipedia) (Btw. look at this video from the vaults explaining the UNIX operating system...

SAP: Quick Look – Streaming process chains

The classical approach to load data into SAP BW is by using extractors. With SAP HANA there is SDA and SDI, as well as native modeling – which leverage the HANA capabilities using calculation views. However sometimes virtual data models are not sufficient (eg due to performance bottle-necks), but there is still “near” real-time data needed. This is where “streaming...