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Sep 27, 2021
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Caesar, standards, and SAST: The road to SARIF

Michael C. Fanning

In this post, Michael Fanning gives us a short history on standards (think Julius Caesar), how consensus on something very small can enable something very large, and how all of it relates to the design of the ‘Static Analysis Results Interchange Format’ (SARIF).

Aug 18, 2021
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Large-scale distributed builds with Microsoft Build Accelerator

Michael Pysson

Learn how Microsoft evolved it’s build caching algorithm with BuildXL to support large-scale distributed builds.

Jul 19, 2021
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Shifting accessibility left with Accessibility Insights

Mark Reay

We believe that we can only solve the problem of inaccessible software by shifting accessibility left into the software design and development cycle. In this post, Mark Reay describes how our open-source offering, Accessibility Insights, can help.

Jul 6, 2021
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Separating the signal from the noise

Bryan Sullivan

If a security tool catches a critical vulnerability, but also reports 99 other findings that turn out to be false positives, developers are going to ignore everything that the tool reports and then miss the important issues. Bryan Sullivan talks through how you can hone your tooling to separate the signal from the noise.