David Fowler
@davidfowl
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft on .NET, Creator of NuGet, SignalR, http://ASP.NET Core and Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player, Father, other half @symonefowler
When I got a job at Microsoft, there was an article in the local news paper and my parents framed it.
This week the 1P squad were able to take some newly built aspire based services through and end-to-end multi region deployment 👏🏾. Still early days but we’re getting closer to a full stack story.
We have a team working on an effort called “Aspire for 1P” inside of Microsoft. The goal is simple, build the default toolchain for developing and deploying compliant services inside Microsoft. Lots of teams are adopting Aspire for development and next is deployment. This isn’t…
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 5: The console logs page now lets you toggle log line wrapping on or off 🪵
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 4: The trace detail page gets some quality-of-life improvements: 📊 The name column is wider to show more detail ℹ️ Header trace details now collapse to prevent wrapping
Aspire 9.4 new dashboard features, day 6: Resources with a connection string (databases 🗄️, caches 🧠, message brokers 📬, etc.) now display the connection string in the dashboard.
We have a new discord aka.ms/aspire-discord #aspire
Aspire is growing up. Better local dev workflows. Testing you can see. Polyglot by default. A clearer path to deployment. We just published the roadmap—come take a look: 👉 github.com/dotnet/aspire/… #aspire #dotnet
The leap from human in the loop to no human in the loop for more complex tasks requires a step function change that we have not seen yet. The amount of time and care it takes to fully automate what feels like rudimentary process with AI agents is still *very* high.
Aspire is growing up. Better local dev workflows. Testing you can see. Polyglot by default. A clearer path to deployment. We just published the roadmap—come take a look: 👉 github.com/dotnet/aspire/… #aspire #dotnet
Today we’re releasing GitHub Spark — a new tool in Copilot that turns your ideas into full-stack apps, entirely in natural language.
Wrote about using .NET Aspire to refactor my original AI Chat web application to use Ollama as a resource from the CommunityToolkit. This is my original implementation which does little more that starts up Ollama for my app. davidpuplava.com/refactor-with-…