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Michael C. Fanning
Michael C. Fanning
Sep 25, 2024

Common annotated security keys

In April 2021, GitHub announced changes to their security token format that significantly enhanced security. The improvement leveraged two straightforward ...

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Suraj Guptha Eliza Tarasila
Suraj,
Eliza
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 Engineering system infrastructure and how it helped make significant improvements to productivity, cost savings, and security. This solution will soon be available as a third-party offering named "Managed DevOps Pools".

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Nandita Gupta
Nandita Gupta
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-cycle! Learn how tools like Accessibility Insights & Visual Studio can help find accessibility issues in development.

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Erik Mavrinac
Erik Mavrinac
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. See our previous articles from May 24, 2023, October 13, 2023, and ...

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Sarah Luck Bob Tabor
Sarah,
Bob
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. We create documentation and training content about Azure, developer tooling and ...

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Predrag Vlatković
Predrag Vlatković
Mar 4, 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 loads. Azure Synapse integrates various data analytics technologies, while Microsoft Fabric offers a full enterprise analytics solution. Through rigorous daily and weekly load testing, involving complex scenarios and extensive data sizes, Microsoft aims to identify and rectify potential issues, ensuring optimal performance. This testing, integrated within their development pipelines, supports continuous improvement, leverages Azure's scalability, and utilizes Power BI for detailed reporting, ultimately enhancing service reliability and user experience.

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Nandita Gupta Jacqueline Gibson Mark Reay
Nandita,
Jacqueline,
Mark
Dec 3, 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 Insights, Microsoft...

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Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver
Nov 15, 2023

Building Paved Paths: The Journey to Platform Engineering

Over the past year, AI has taken the world by storm. Our industry is innovating at an unprecedented rate, bringing incredible products to market that make life ...

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Erik Mavrinac
Erik Mavrinac
Nov 2, 2023

Copy-on-Write in Win32 API Early Access

(Updated Apr 4 and 26, 2024 with some release news. Also see the next post) On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-...

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