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In an interconnected enterprise runtime, SAP is no longer an isolated platform. Modern business processes rarely live inside a single system — they span many cloud services, external partners, and third-party tools. To make them work together, systems need to talk to each other, and the language they use is HTTP. Why do we need HTTP calls? Almost every service on the internet exposes its functionality through a REST API (a set of web addresses you can call over HTTP). This is fantastic for us as ABAP developers: if a system offers a REST API, we can connect to it directly from our ABAP code. And the two data formats these APIs speak are almost always JSON (the modern standard) or XML (the classic, still common in SAP-to-SAP and SOAP scenarios) — exactly the two formats we will learn to handle in this guide. ...

For over a decade, WordPress was my default answer to “I need a website.” Whether it was a small business page, a portfolio, a landing page, or even a fully featured shop — WordPress and PHP were where I started my journey into web development. Over the years, I built more than a dozen sites on it as part of my side business. But the longer I worked with it, the more its cracks started to show. Eventually, I made the switch to Hugo — and I haven’t looked back since. ...