Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.
Topics of Discussion:
[02:47] Glenn’s career path.
[06:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET.
[08:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software.
[09:40] The evolution of .NET.
[09:53] .NET core.
[14:04] New features and ideas presented at .NET Conf.
[16:26] Aspire.
[18:58] Every piece of an Aspire solution uses open Telemetry as a standard.
[19:26] Redis.
[27:15] Aspire knows all the “what’ and “how” to deploy to the cloud, without explicit cloud knowledge.
[32:36] The intent of AZD.
[36:57] Handling the components of Aspire.
[40:21] How to add custom resources to Aspire.
[41:00] Opinionated vs non-opinionated development in the .NET ecosystem.
