Brady Gaster: Upgrading .NET apps - Episode 331

Brady Gaster is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes of making it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!

Topics of Discussion:

[6:27] Collaboration with Azure Developer CLI.

[8:08] The challenges of integrating ASP.NET Core with existing deployment methods like App Service.

[11:45] The main questions they heard at the panel.

[13:53] Deploying your dashboard to Azure Container apps.

[24:31] Aspire builds on .NET and everything you can do with .NET, you can keep doing.

[27:03] Tips for developing against Aspire resources.

[27:50] The future focuses on security.

[30:02] Optimizing your development environment around DevOps.

[34:28] How much is Kubernetes an actual dependency, or can normal .NET applications just use App Service and not be tied to Kubernetes?

[39:37] Brady's thoughts on the benefits of containers and the potential for easier alternatives in the future.

[44:06] AI doing a better job of suggesting the right code.