About Engineering @ Microsoft October 29, 2015November 5, 2015 Welcome to Engineering @ Microsoft! This site offers a behind-the-screen look at how Microsoft engineers solve big engineering challenges. If you’re interested in learning what it’s like to do hands-on … Read more »
ICYMI for November 2015 – other sources for Microsoft engineering topics October 29, 2015November 2, 2015 In case you missed it, here are some places to go deep with new technologies that Microsoft is building or contributing to … Microsoft Mechanics, the official Microsoft video platform … Read more »
Behind The Curtain: How We Run Exchange Online (Ignite 2015) October 29, 2015November 9, 2015 With Vivek Sharma, Office 365 Director of Program Management, and Perry Clarke, Corporate VP of Outlook/Exchange Engineering Imagine running an online service that spans 50 locations comprising 65,000 servers across … Read more »
Designing OneNote’s Local Cache Implementation October 29, 2015November 4, 2015 Authors: Terry Crowley (tcrowley@microsoft.com) and Vincent Lascaux (vincelas), Microsoft Office Group There’s an old adage in software engineering – “never write your own database”. So why did we go ahead … Read more »
Azure’s Journey to Standardizing on Git Source Control October 29, 2015November 10, 2015 Author: William Bartholomew, Cloud Engineering Systems Team (now with the Open Source Programs Office) These are the voyages of the Azure engineering system. Its continuing mission: to empower engineers, to … Read more »
CodeMine: Engineering Analytics at Scale October 29, 2015November 9, 2015 Authors: Jacek Czerwonka, Trevor Carnahan, Wolfram Schulte { jacekcz, trevorc, schulte } @microsoft.com, Tools for Software Engineers team The scale and speed of software development activities across a large company … Read more »
Shipping a New Mindset with SQLite in Windows 10 October 29, 2015November 10, 2015 Author: Usman Anwer (@uanwer), Developer Ecosystem and Platform Team How do you ship over 200 Data Access APIs that work across half a dozen different types of devices and have … Read more »
The Evolution of Bing’s ObjectStore October 29, 2015November 5, 2015 Authors: Vikas Sabharwal (vikass@microsoft.com) and Vineet Pruthi (vpruthi@microsoft.com), Microsoft Shared Platform Group In late 2011, Bing’s shared platform team started looking at different solutions for distributed NoSQL stores. We needed … Read more »