Engineering@Microsoft

Load testing AAD-based authentication for Azure Cache for Redis

July 31, 2023 Jul 31, 2023 07/31/23

Rohit Anand

At Microsoft, we continue working on modernizing our services to make them faster, more reliable, and up to date with the latest technologies. In this blog post, we’ll cover how Azure Load Testing helped ensure that the Azure Active Directory (AAD) based authentication mechanism for Azure Cache for Redis met the performance criteria. Azure ...

Dev Drive and Copy-on-Write for Developer Performance

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

Erik Mavrinac

At Microsoft Build 2023 the Windows team announced Dev Drive, a new evolution of the Windows ReFS filesystem retuned for developer workloads like Git and builds. This new functionality will ship later this year in the Windows 11 23H2 refresh and is available now for early testing via the Windows Insider program.

Microsoft Dev Box for Microsoft engineers

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Josh Zimmerman

We’re in an exciting time for technology. But to take advantage of the opportunities, it’s critical for developers to have access to the tools and resources that can help them stay productive and do their best work. At Microsoft, we’re migrating many of our developers to highly productive…

The Journey to Secure the Software Supply Chain at Microsoft

May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 05/22/23

Adrian Diglio

A secure software supply chain represents another facet of Microsoft's built-in security to enhance and maintain trust in our products. It’s a continuation of the journey we embarked upon since the launch of Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) in 2004 and represents our commitment to continually enhance Microsoft’s foundational security.

Implementing an accessible, checkable WPF Tree View

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23

Sarah Oslund

The Accessibility Insights team recently fixed a bug in our Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app where checkboxes in a WPF tree view were not properly reporting their checked or unchecked state to adaptive technologies such as screen readers. This longstanding issue created a sub-par accessible experience in Accessibility Insights for ...

Learnings from migrating Accessibility Insights for Web to Chrome’s Manifest V3

December 15, 2022 Dec 15, 2022 12/15/22

Sarah Oslund

Since February 2022, the Accessibility Insights team has been migrating Accessibility Insights for Web–our Chrome and Edge extension introduced in Jacqueline's February 14, 2022, post from Manifest V2 (MV2) to Manifest V3 (MV3). We wanted to share learnings and takeaways from our migration journey with a walkthrough…

Microsoft open sources its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22

Danesh Kumar Badlani, Adrian Diglio

We are excited and proud to open source our software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool. A key requirement of the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, SBOMs are lists of ingredients that make up software components, providing software transparency so organizations have insight into their supply chain dependencies. ...

The pursuit of an autonomic scale and efficiency system for Microsoft 365: Making it as easy as breathing

March 29, 2022 Mar 29, 2022 03/29/22

Randy Lehner

Through automated profiling and data collection of performance behavior, Microsoft’s M365 Core team can derive the context with which to inform the engineer about the impact of their code, as they write it. Randy Lehner likens it to the autonomic nervous system in this post on their Cloud Profiling and Reporting Pipeline.

Accessibility Insights for Web

February 14, 2022 Feb 14, 2022 02/14/22

Jacqueline Gibson

In this post, Jacqueline Gibson goes over Accessibility Insights for Web, Microsoft's open-sourced Chrome and Edge extension that helps users find and fix web accessibility issues.

Improving developer productivity via flaky test management

February 1, 2022 Feb 1, 2022 02/1/22

Suresh Thummalapenta

Flaky tests are a well-known problem across the industry and Microsoft is no exception. In this post, Suresh Thummalapenta walks us through the team's comprehensive flaky test management system that helps to infer, triage, and quarantine those tests.