Discover how .NET Aspire improves observability and reliability in complex distributed systems through integrated monitoring, structured logging, and end-to-end tracing, and learn why QA and DevOps teams benefit most from its unified approach.
Productivity exemplified: How I planned, prompted, and tamed AI to migrate aspire.dev.
Microsoft has released Aspire 13, the latest version of the company’s tool kit for building distributed, cloud-native applications. With Aspire 13, Python and JavaScript become “first-class citizens” of the development platform, Microsoft said, with comprehensive support for running, debugging, and deploying applications written in these languages.
Microsoft released Aspire 13 at .NET Conf 2025, adding AI integration through the Model Context Protocol and introducing the “Aspireify anything” concept to bring any app into its distributed development framework. The update also adds new pipeline automation, expanded JavaScript and Python support, and a redesigned developer experience.
The post shows how to use the Swiss Digital identity and trust infrastructure, (swiyu) as an MFA method in an ASP.NET Core web application using ASP.NET Core Identity and Duende IdentityServer.
Microsoft’s cloud-native, distributed application development tool kit drops .NET from its name and embraces, well, everything.
In this article, we’ll explore what .NET Aspire is, its core features, and how it fits into broader modernization and scalability strategies for organizations already invested in .NET.
The behind-the-scenes chronicles of building Aspire’s pipelines feature: from basic callbacks and progress reporting to a full-on concurrent pipeline concept.
A journey of rebranding, replatforming, dogfooding, and mild existential crises
How I used Claude and Copilot to design the Aspire deploy CLI, moving from sequential steps to a concurrent-ready design that works in both interactive and CI/CD environments.