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Microsoft Learn: Building Docs at Scale with GitHub & AI

Ever wonder how Microsoft manages to keep documentation up-to-date for millions of developers worldwide? In this session, I’ll take you behind the scenes of the Content Development team to show you the tools, the workflows, and the chaos of managing one of the world's largest open-source projects.

We will walk through the "Docs-as-Code" lifecycle, demonstrating how we:

- Engineer Content: Use Visual Studio Code and the Learn Authoring Pack to treat documentation like software.
- Collaborate: Manage the flow of thousands of pull requests using GitHub and rigorous git workflows.
- Leverage AI: New! See how we are starting to integrate AI tools to accelerate content creation, improve accuracy, and streamline maintenance.
- Ship It: The journey from a Markdown file on a local machine to a live page on Microsoft Learn.

Whether you are curious about the role of a Content Developer or want to improve your own documentation processes, this session reveals how the experts do it.

Alvin Ashcraft

Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft

West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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