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Hosting a Capture-the-Flag event on Azure

January 11, 2023 Jan 11, 2023 01/11/23

avbalter

Guidance for setting up a self-hosted, scalable, secured, and easy to maintain CTFd environment, using nothing Azure Platform as a Service components.

X++ And Git: A Basic Setup

June 14, 2022 Jun 14, 2022 06/14/22

Ian Jensen

Overview In this post we outline the basics of setting up an X++ repository in Git as well as a YAML-based build pipeline which executes against this repository. Background Git is an increasingly popular version control system which sees broad use within the Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) organization at Microsoft. Dynamics 365 for ...

An Approach to Unit Testing ADX Functions

June 13, 2022 Jun 13, 2022 06/13/22

David Giard

Overview Our application contains many functions that return data stored in Azure Data Explorer (ADX). We wrote these functions in Kusto Query Language (KQL) and each function returns a set of data based on the arguments passed. Although developers tested these functions as they wrote them, we needed a way to validate that the functions ...

A Search Solution For Video Archive

May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 05/13/22

Maysam Mokarian

Background Azure Video Analyzer enables developers to quickly build an AI-powered video analytics solution to extract actionable insights from videos, whether stored or streaming. It can be used to enhance workplace safety, in-store experiences, digital asset management, media archives, and more by assisting in understanding audio and ...

Configuring Edge Devices At Scale

May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 05/11/22

Alexander

While many agent- and SSH-based server management solutions exist, the seamless integration with IoT Hub gives OSConfig a decisive edge for IoT scenarios that have strict requirements in terms of scalability, security and offline resiliency.

Configuring Authentication and Authorization for REST APIs using Azure AD B2C ID Tokens

March 23, 2022 Mar 23, 2022 03/23/22

David Giard

This article describes how were able to automate Azure Active Directory B2C token retrieval and authentication for our partner, allowing them to run End-to-End tests without user interaction.

E2E Tests for LoRaWAN Starter Kit with Real Hardware

March 15, 2022 Mar 15, 2022 03/15/22

Maggie Salak

This article focuses on the different aspects of end-to-end testing of the LoRaWAN Starter Kit project. Due to the specifics of the LoRaWAN protocol and the Starter Kit, the end-to-end testing of the solution needs to be performed with real hardware which includes LoRa leaf devices, LoRa concentrators and Edge gateways.

Observability Journey

March 2, 2022 Mar 2, 2022 03/2/22

agonzalez

As an Engineering team on Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering (CSE), we strive to empower customers to build and maintain their software-based solutions. A key factor in being successful in our goal is to educate and develop the solution by applying certain Engineering Fundamentals. In this article, we will cover Observability.

Entity Framework Journey

March 2, 2022 Mar 2, 2022 03/2/22

agonzalez

As an Engineering team on Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering (CSE), we strive to empower customers to build and maintain their software-based solutions. In this article, we will cover an aspect of our Engineering Fundamentals, DB change management using Entity Framework.