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Academy · BTP & Extensions · 400 Expert

Designing Resilient, Upgrade-Safe Extensions on SAP BTP

An expert course on architecture for durable SAP BTP extensions: depending only on released APIs and events and SAP's clean core levels, resilience patterns with SAP Cloud SDK defaults, lifecycle alignment with SAP S/4HANA Private Edition and BTP release calendars, observability and alerting with SAP Cloud ALM, and a criteria-based architecture review. Built around Contoso Motor Co.'s fleet order status app, fleet order notifier and warranty app.

  • 52 minutes
  • 5 lessons + quiz
  • BTP & Extension Developer, Solution Architect, Integration Specialist
Start the course
  1. 01Stable dependencies: build only on released contracts11 min
  2. 02Resilience patterns: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers11 min
  3. 03Lifecycle alignment with SAP release calendars10 min
  4. 04Operations: observability, monitoring and alerting10 min
  5. 05Architecture review: assessing an extension design10 min
  6. QZCourse quiz12 questions

What you’ll be able to do

  • Design extensions that depend only on stable, released interfaces and contain unavoidable exceptions
  • Apply resilience patterns: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads and fallbacks
  • Plan lifecycle alignment with SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP release calendars
  • Design observability, monitoring and alerting for extensions in operation
  • Review an extension architecture against written criteria and record decisions

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