Building applications today is a lot more complicated than it used to be, as we tend to shy away from monoliths and build, at least somewhat, distributed applications. On top of that, they tend to be dependent on a bunch of external services like Redis, SQL, Service Buses and Kafka. All of them, things that make your application development a more complicated.

Sure, a lot of it can be handled by a bunch of configuration, conventions and Docker. But it still takes time, is sometimes overly complicated, and causes quite a few headaches. What if it didn't have to?

.NET Aspire is built to simplify your development in these kinds of scenarios. The goal is to allow you to orchestrate your solution using code, and have the framework sort out things like service discovery, telemetry, logging, resiliency and more.

In this presentation you will get an introduction to what .NET Aspire can do for you! It will also try to explain a bit about how it actually works, instead of just showing the new and shiny stuff and saying that it is the result of many sacrificed chickens and black magic!