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:
[02:49] Brady’s career highlights and how throwing parties prepared him for Microsoft.
[04:07] History of Microsoft’s publishing tools and their evolution towards cloud-native development.
[07:37] Using Azure Container Apps for containerization and publishing to Kubernetes.
[13:42] Using Aspire for containerized applications in Azure, including toolchain and orchestration.
[17:36] Simplifying software development with automation.
[23:27] Azure subscriptions and provisioning for developers.
[25:38] AZD infra synth.
[26:15] Using Azure DevOps and Azure Development Environments for named environments in .NET development.
[30:39] The system of record for the names of the environments.
[37:13] What we can look forward to with the next release.
[38:37] What should we know about Microsoft Learn so far?
