Building modern distributed applications often means juggling a bunch of moving parts — APIs, background workers, databases, message queues… and getting them all to run together smoothly can be a real challenge. That’s where .NET Aspire comes in.

In this session, Sam will demonstrate how Aspire helps you easily build, run, and observe distributed apps — whether you’re working locally, in containers, or want to deploy them to the cloud. You’ll get a clear overview of what Aspire is, why it matters, but also what the pitfalls and disadvantages are.

Expect hands-on demos: you’ll see how to spin up a full Aspire-powered app with micro services, messaging-based dependencies, and real telemetry. Whether you’re just curious or ready to dive in, you'll get a good understanding on what .NET Aspire is and how you can use it.