I happened to be one of the engineers that designed and help launch this blog in July 2015.
Despite many attempts by marketing overlords it has remained pretty pure for 9 years - all the authors are engineers writing production code with real customers, and almost every blog post contains a direct link to a GitHub repo with the full code context to reproduce the article - again with production* quality code.
> Our team, ISE (Industry Solutions Engineering), works side-by-side with customers to help them tackle their toughest technical problems both in the cloud and on the edge.
The blog could really do with a subtitle or about page explaining this.
I happened to be one of the engineers that designed and help launch this blog in July 2015.
Despite many attempts by marketing overlords it has remained pretty pure for 9 years - all the authors are engineers writing production code with real customers, and almost every blog post contains a direct link to a GitHub repo with the full code context to reproduce the article - again with production* quality code.
The same org also publishes the entirety of their engineering process here https://github.com/microsoft/code-with-engineering-playbook that has been continuously refined since 2018.