Tales from the Trenches - Building a Distributed System with Aspire and Dapr

Learn from real-world experiences building distributed systems with .NET Aspire and Dapr in this 56-minute conference talk from NDC Oslo. Discover the practical challenges and successes encountered while developing a distributed application using both technologies from .NET Aspire's Preview 2 stage through production deployment. Explore the decision-making process for choosing between these technologies and understand when they should be used together or separately. Move beyond typical getting-started demonstrations to examine real enterprise deployment challenges, including issues with automated deployment promises, version compatibility problems, organizational politics, bugs, and dependency management. Gain insights into the strengths and limitations of both .NET Aspire and Dapr through detailed war stories from actual implementation experiences. Evaluate whether this technology combination or individual tools are suitable for your specific project requirements based on lessons learned from enterprise-level distributed system development.