Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

When I wrote this, my pieces for The Stack weren't behind the paywall; they're now popular enough that they might be.

I really did get excited about Aspire because local development isn't going away but you have to handle connected resources and show me a mock that's truly accurate to the live production system every time in every way, I'll wait: I like the Aspire approach to specifying that in a standard way and I hope we see more of it. Especially as Aspire aspires (sorry) to be more than just .NET and it uses building blocks developers already know while nudging them into areas they need to learn.

Since this came up as a question from at least one person, I'll include it here (I cover Dapr and Radius themselves elsewhere).

“We're trying to build this ecosystem of reusable components to help people that are in any environment, any cloud, any operating system get off the ground quickly."

• open source
• platform engineering
• .NET
• Aspire
• Microsoft
• developer
• productivity
• cloud
• application modelling
• distributed applications
• telemetry