Engineering@Microsoft
Microsoft
Wed Sep 25 2024
Common annotated security keys
In April 2021, GitHub announced changes to their security token format that significantly enhanced security.
Thu Jul 18 2024
Managed DevOps Pools – The Origin Story
Learn about how Microsoft's 1ES organization developed an internal service called "1ES Hosted Pools" to manage Microsoft's diverse Engineeri...
Thu May 16 2024
Developing with Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft
Celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day GAAD by taking actionable and easy steps to build accessibility into your development life-...
Tue May 14 2024
Copy-on-Write performance and debugging
This is a follow-up to our previous coverage of Dev Drive and copy-on-write (CoW) linking.
Mon Apr 22 2024
How we built “Ask Learn”, the RAG-based knowledge service
My name is Bob Tabor and I’m a member of Microsoft’s Skilling organization.
Mon Mar 04 2024
Enhancing reliability in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse through load testing
Microsoft has employed Azure Load Testing to enhance the reliability of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse, ensuring they can handle high lo...
Sun Dec 03 2023
Accessibility Insights now supports WCAG 2.2 AA
To celebrate the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd we have some exciting new announcements for Accessibility I...
Wed Nov 15 2023
Building Paved Paths: The Journey to Platform Engineering
Over the past year, AI has taken the world by storm.
Thu Nov 02 2023
Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access
On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Windows 11 Insider Canary c...
Fri Oct 13 2023
Dev Drive is Now Available
In a previous post, Dev Drive and Copy-on-Write for Developer Performance, we published early performance numbers for the new Dev Drive feat...
Thu Aug 24 2023
Your Most Important Git Repos
What do you keep in your Git repos? Source code for your production applications certainly, but you probably also keep a fair amount of expe...
Mon Jul 31 2023
Load testing AAD-based authentication for Azure Cache for Redis
At Microsoft, we continue working on modernizing our services to make them faster, more reliable, and up to date with the latest technologie...
Wed May 24 2023
Dev Drive and Copy-on-Write for Developer Performance
At Microsoft Build 2023 the Windows team announced Dev Drive, a new evolution of the Windows ReFS filesystem retuned for developer workloads...
Tue May 23 2023
Microsoft Dev Box for Microsoft engineers
We’re in an exciting time for technology.
Mon May 22 2023
The Journey to Secure the Software Supply Chain at Microsoft
A secure software supply chain represents another facet of Microsoft’s built-in security to enhance and maintain trust in our products.
Wed Mar 15 2023
Implementing an accessible, checkable WPF Tree View
The Accessibility Insights team recently fixed a bug in our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app where checkboxes in a WPF tree view we...
Thu Dec 15 2022
Learnings from migrating Accessibility Insights for Web to Chrome’s Manifest V3
Since February 2022, the Accessibility Insights team has been migrating Accessibility Insights for Web–our Chrome and Edge extension introdu...
Tue Jul 12 2022
Microsoft open sources its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool
We are excited and proud to open source our software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool.
Tue Mar 29 2022
The pursuit of an autonomic scale and efficiency system for Microsoft 365: Making it as easy as breathing
Through automated profiling and data collection of performance behavior, Microsoft’s M365 Core team can derive the context with which to inf...
Mon Feb 14 2022
Accessibility Insights for Web
In this post, Jacqueline Gibson goes over Accessibility Insights for Web, Microsoft's open-sourced Chrome and Edge extension that helps user...
Tue Feb 01 2022
Improving developer productivity via flaky test management
Flaky tests are a well-known problem across the industry and Microsoft is no exception.
Mon Dec 13 2021
Accessibility Insights for Windows
In this post, John Alkire walks through the features of Accessibility Insights for Windows, which enables users to inspect and test Windows ...
Mon Oct 25 2021
CloudTest: A multi-tenant, scalable, performant and extensible verification service
In this post, Sina Jafari discusses key characteristics of the CloudTest infrastructure used at Microsoft and why similar characteristics sh...
Wed Oct 13 2021
Generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with SPDX at Microsoft
In this post, Adrian Diglio walks us through how Microsoft is planning to generate SBOMs not just to meet the U.
Mon Sep 27 2021
Caesar, standards, and SAST: The road to SARIF
In this post, Michael Fanning gives us a short history on standards (think Julius Caesar), how consensus on something very small can enable ...
Thu Sep 16 2021
You can’t have security for DevOps until you have DevOps for security
The faster we iterate on refining secure development practices, the faster our developers can address security pain points, and the better w...
