Posts in samples

Lessons In Building A Scalable Samples Experience

October 5, 2019

You probably heard (or read) a post I wrote back in July about how we built docs.microsoft.com/samples - I talked about some of the foundational elements and the process which we followed to build the site. Now that we’re a couple of months in, I thought I would take a step back and write about some of the lessons learned about shipping the new site, in the hopes that this will be helpful to others who will work on projects of similar scale!

Building A Centralized Samples Experience At Microsoft

July 31, 2019

One of the biggest projects I’ve had the honor of being a part of has shipped a couple of days ago - docs.microsoft.com/samples. If you haven’t read the announcement blog post, I recommend you start there. Table of contents Inception Looking back First steps Improving the experience Published pages Automating releases Stack Conclusion Inception When we started working more in-depth on developer experiences, we realized that there are too many disjoint pages out there that provide an aggregation of code samples (and we ship thousands of samples that span hundreds of teams).

Validating Samples With Docker And Azure Container Registry

June 5, 2017

If you read one of the latest Ars Technica pieces about how Microsoft renewed its strategy on embracing developers across the board, you might've stumbled across this little tidbit about code sample testing.