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Mar 3, 2025
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How Microsoft Engineers Build AI: Learn about scalable RAG-enabled AI Apps

Krezzia Noelle Basilio Samit Jhaveri
Krezzia,
Samit

For developers, the emphasis on building intelligence into apps has never been clearer. Over the next three years, 92% of companies plan on investing in AI to achieve business outcomes like enhancing productivity and delivering better customer service. At Microsoft, developers and engineers are pushing the boundaries of AI at scale, crafting appli...

Dec 11, 2024
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Dev Box Ready-To-Code Dev Box images template

Dmitry Goncharenko
Dmitry Goncharenko

Microsoft One Engineering System (1ES) team shares a sample for building Ready-To-Code Dev Box environments pre-configured with the necessary tools, repositories, and settings, ensuring consistency and reliability across teams.

Sep 25, 2024
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Common annotated security keys

Michael C. Fanning
Michael C. Fanning

In April 2021, GitHub announced changes to their security token format that significantly enhanced security. The improvement leveraged two straightforward techniques: a fixed signature in the generated token and a checksum - both of which are highly effective in eliminating false positives (noise) and false negatives (missed findings). Microsoft a...

Jul 18, 2024
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Managed DevOps Pools – The Origin Story

Suraj Guptha Eliza Tarasila
Suraj,
Eliza

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".

May 16, 2024
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Developing with Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft

Nandita Gupta
Nandita Gupta

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.

May 14, 2024
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Copy-on-Write performance and debugging

Erik Mavrinac
Erik Mavrinac

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 November 2, 2023. Dev Drive was released in Windows 11 in October, 2023, and will be part of Windows Server 2025 this fall. Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 ship with an enhancement to automat...

Apr 22, 2024
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How we built “Ask Learn”, the RAG-based knowledge service

Sarah Luck Bob Tabor
Sarah,
Bob

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 languages, AI, Windows and much more hosted at Microsoft Learn. Our organization also develops and maintains the content publishing platform, the content hosting platform, the interactivity, and...

Mar 4, 2024
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Enhancing reliability in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse through load testing

Predrag Vlatković
Predrag Vlatković

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...

Dec 3, 2023
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Accessibility Insights now supports WCAG 2.2 AA

Nandita Gupta Jacqueline Gibson Mark Reay
Nandita,
Jacqueline,
Mark

To celebrate the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd we have some exciting new announcements for Accessibility Insights, Microsoft’s open-source suite of tools to help developers deliver accessible software! Technology plays a huge role in empowering everyone, including people with disabilities around the globe. Develope...

Nov 15, 2023
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Building Paved Paths: The Journey to Platform Engineering

Amanda Silver
Amanda Silver

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 and work easier and more efficient for real people across a wide range of sectors and job functions. Like previous industry shifts—the introduction of the PC, internet, and search—it’s a pre...