Engineering@Microsoft

Caesar, standards, and SAST: The road to SARIF

Michael C. Fanning September 27, 2021 Sep 27, 2021 09/27/21

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).

You can’t have security for DevOps until you have DevOps for security

Bryan Sullivan September 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021 09/16/21

The faster we iterate on refining secure development practices, the faster our developers can address security pain points, and the better we protect our customers. In this post, Bryan Sullivan walks through key learnings from the 1ES Security team.

Large-scale distributed builds with Microsoft Build Accelerator

Michael Pysson August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21

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

Shifting accessibility left with Accessibility Insights

Mark Reay July 19, 2021 Jul 19, 2021 07/19/21

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.

Separating the signal from the noise

Bryan Sullivan July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

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.

Welcome to the Engineering@Microsoft Blog

Magnus Hedlund July 6, 2021 Jul 6, 2021 07/6/21

Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes. Keeping those engineering teams productive while meeting their ever-increasing scale demands is a big challenge. Read about the One Engineering System (1ES) initiative in this inaugural post on the Engineering@Microsoft blog.