The Aspire team is on various summer breaks recharging, so we're taking July (and a bit of August) off from #AspiriFridays. But don't worry! There's about.... ~112 hours!?!?! of AspiriFridays content from the last year on our YouTube 🥴 See you in a few weeks! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Join Maddy Montaquila (Aspire PM), Damian Edwards (Aspire Architect), and David Fowler (Aspire's Benevolent Dictator), and occasionally a guest while they tr...
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New (fiscal) year, new Aspire roadmap! Let us know what you think about our latest and greatest plans 💫 github.com/microsoft/as...
Our Latest Aspirations (Roadmap) - 2026 -> 2027 · microsoft aspire · Discussion #18581
Aspire Roadmap (2026 → 2027) Hi everyone 💫 What a year! Since last July, 128 of you merged 3,191 pull requests, closed 2,277 issues, shipped 31 releases, and pushed Aspire past 6k ⭐stars⭐ on…
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Aspire 13.4 brings more of the local development loop into @VSCode.dev: AppHost CodeLens actions, live resource state, dashboard shortcuts, typed resource command prompts, TypeScript AppHost support, and multi-language debugging. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #AspireDev
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Tomorrow's #AspiriFriday is quite the gem 🦪🐫 @omnideth.dev is joining us at 1p EST/10a PST to talk about the Community Toolkit and how he built a Perl integration for Aspire. See you then - and #python fans, get ready to clutch your pearls!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAc...
AspiriFridays - Perl with @omnideth
When we say Aspire works with any programming language, we mean ANY programming language - including Perl! Omnideth, aka Matt Austew, Community Toolkit contributor, AspiriFridays regular, and Perl…
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Learn how Aspire, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Microsoft Foundry can model, run, observe, and publish a distributed multi-agent system. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/build... #AspireDev
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ICYMI: Catch the replay of the Aspire session by @maddy.fm and @davidfowl.com at #MSBuild! 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge5P...
Aspire for agents: Transform how you build and deploy distributed apps | BRK205
Aspire is an open-source cloud and agent-ready developer toolchain transforming how you build, run, and deploy observable, production-ready distributed apps. Its code centric approach streamlines…
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Read part 2 of the incredible journey on how the @microsoft.com Windows 365 team scaled Aspire adoption with reliability patterns and an agentic AI system rollout across 50+ repos. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #AspireDev
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Going LIVE NOW from #msbuild - @davidfowl.com and @maddy.fm showing a preview of their breakout session later today!! youtube.com/@aspiredotdev
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Your stack, streamlined 💫
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Happy #msbuild Day 1! Come stop by the Aspire booth in the Expert Meetup area to say hi to @bethmassi.net @davidfowl.com and @maddy.fm (and grab a sticker!) 💫
Aspire 13.4 has landed 🚀 The TypeScript apphost is officially GA! Plus 500 or so other PRs of goodies 🤌 🔎 Read the blog for the highlights 👉🏻 devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/whats... 🤯 Check out the What's New for all the deets 👉🏻 aspire.dev/whats-new/as...
Aspire 13.4 is here
Aspire 13.4 is here with TypeScript apphost GA, typed resource commands with results, server-side CLI log and telemetry search, more mature Kubernetes and AKS deployment, and more.
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Instead of #AspiriFridays - join @maddy.fm on the Microsoft Zero to Hero channel! "Use AI to Build AI with Aspire" www.youtube.com/live/9xdoOG-... or www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpn...
Maddy Montaquila - Use AI to build AI (without losing your mind)
Agentic AI development is changing how we build software: coding agents, AI code reviews, autonomous workflows, intelligent product experiences, and new fram...
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Learn how the Azure Chaos Studio team uses Aspire to run hermetic, per-PR end-to-end tests across their services with emulators, stubs, and no shared environments. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/herme... #AspireDev @azure.microsoft.com
How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests
Learn how the Azure Chaos Studio team uses Aspire.Hosting.Testing to run hermetic, per-PR end-to-end tests across four services — with emulators, stubs, and no shared environments.
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Congrats to our friends @bitwarden.bsky.social for Aspirifying their server repo! Welcome to the Aspire side 💫 github.com/bitwarden/se...
Aspire Integration by sbrown-livefront · Pull Request #6775 · bitwarden/server
🎟️ Tracking 📔 Objective Introduces a new AppHost project to the solution, providing a centralized entry point for orchestrating local development and distributed application resources using .NET ...
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Age-old debate today on #AspiriFridays - youtube.com/watch?v=PTxh... - would you rather have starter templates with some opinion on architecture or that are as simple as posssible even if it isn't a pattern youd use IRL (ie, uses express routers instead of a single file index.js)??? Comment below!
Starting in 10 minutes... today's #AspiriFridays is a live roast! @robrich.bsky.social is joining the show to tell us all the things he wants us to fix in Aspire - it's going to be a fun one. See you soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTxh...
AspiriFridays: Rob Rich Roasts Us
Rob Rich, JS/TS/C# developer, Kubernetes wizard, and Microsoft MVP, has been a great source of feedback for the Aspire team, but has plenty more to share. Come hear us get (rightfully) roasted on…
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We're kicking off a new YouTube series - Aspire Bytes - where we'll answer the most common questions we get about Aspire in short(ish) videos. @maddy.fm starts us off with a tough one - what even IS the apphost?! Let us know what we should tackle next 💫🍴🍪 youtu.be/JLlnk3NrvRo
Aspire Bytes: What is the apphost?
Welcome to our new series, Aspire Bytes, where we cover popular topics and answer common questions about Aspire! For the first episode, Maddy Montaquila, Aspire PM, breaks down the most basic piece…
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In this post, @davidfowl.com shows us how Aspire turns a development team's scattered tribal knowledge into an explicit, incrementally adoptable app model that humans, scripts, and AI agents can all use. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/dev-l... #AspireDev
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You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows up. 😱 In this blog post, see how to secure your #Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking: devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #AspireDev
Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking
Network security has a funny way of showing up late. You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows…
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New post on #OpenTelemetry blog from @james.newtonking.com shows how to use the Aspire dashboard with GenAI telemetry to get full visibility into prompts, responses, and performance so you can debug faster and build more reliable AI apps. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/ge... #AspireDev
Inside the LLM Call: GenAI Observability with OpenTelemetry
Your AI agent just took 45 seconds to answer a simple question. Was it the model? A slow tool call? A retry loop? Every time an application calls an LLM, a chain of model calls, tool invocations, and…
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🎥 STARTING SOON! Another #AspiriFridays adventure - can @alexcrome.co.uk handle @maddy.fm and @davidfowl.com at the end of a release week? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGBK...
AspiriFridays - Alex Crome teaches us how to build custom resources
We just released 13.3 (!!!), so we decided to have one of our top community contributors, Alex Crome, on the show to teach us how he builds custom resources for all different types of scenarios with…
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Trying something new this release - @maddy.fm made a video roundup of her favorite features in 13.3! 💫 Should we make her do this every time?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B...
Tomorrow's #AspiriFridays will be fun - one of our top community contributors, @alexcrome.co.uk, is joining us to teach us how REAL people build custom Aspire integrations. See you at 9a PST/12p EST! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGBK...
AspiriFridays - Alex Crome teaches us how to build custom resources
We just released 13.3 (!!!), so we decided to have one of our top community contributors, Alex Crome, on the show to teach us how he builds custom resources for all different types of scenarios with…
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📣HEAR YE, HEAR YE!📣Aspire 13.3 has arrived! Browser logs, Kubernetes, an Aspireify skill, and much, MUCH more. 💡Get some highlights from the blog 👉🏻 devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/whats... 🤿Or dive into the full What's New 👉🏻 aspire.dev/whats-new/as...
What's New in Aspire 13.3
Aspire 13.3 is here with the Aspireify skill, command results, browser logs, Kubernetes and AKS deployment, and more.
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Now featured on VS Code's marketplace... the Aspire extension!💫 Thanks so much, vscode friends💞 🏪VS Code marketplace 👉🏻 marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode 📃Aspire extension docs 👉🏻 aspire.dev/get-started/...
Want to help build the future of Aspire? 💫 In this #AsprieConf replay, we break down all the ways you can contribute and pull back the curtain on how our code gets reviewed, tested, and released. Getting involved is easier than you think: youtu.be/Iz8Zc1-lja4?... #AspireDev
Contributing to Aspire - Aspire Conf 2026
Aspire is open-source, and our community is the best in the game. Getting involved is easier than you think — whether that's filing an issue, contributing code to the core repo, helping build out…
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Tomorrow for #AspiriFriday - @maddy.fm and @davidfowl.com are going to go through the 13.3 changelog and try to write some release notes!! 9am PST! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6T...
(Not) AspiriFridays - Maddy + Fowler write the 13.3 What's New
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Level up your debugging! 🚀 In this #AspireConf session replay, learn how to use the Aspire dashboard for local observability in agentic workflows like #OpenCode. Get the same evidence your AI sees and debug like a pro. youtu.be/YpjoPWCncDY?... #AspireDev #OpenTelemetry
Aspire at OpenCode - Aspire Conf 2026
OpenCode and Aspire make a strong pair for practical, observable agent workflows. In this demo-driven session, I’ll show how Aspire gives both me and an OpenCode agent access to the same…
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SURPRISE! @maddy.fm and @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social are going LIVE in a few minutes to finish up what we started on #AspiriFridays a few weeks ago... come hang out 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Hy...
Kayla + Maddy LIVE - Plants, Trains, and Aspire
Maddy + Kayla are back in the office finishing up Kayla's Garden app and maybe... some IoT???!?!?!
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In this #AspireConf session replay, learn how Aspire integrates with #AWS for local Lambda debugging and seamless CDK-powered cloud deployments. ☁️ Watch the replay: youtu.be/0G2S76Kimh4?... #AspireDev
Building and Deploying with Aspire and AWS - Aspire Conf 2026
Learn how to use Aspire with Amazon Web Services to streamline both local development and cloud deployment. This session demonstrates the new support for running and debugging AWS Lambda functions…
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In this #AspireConf replay, see how the Windows 365 team @Microsoft.com scaled dev efficiency. By using Aspire to standardize reliability and automate multi-repo updates with a team of AI agents, they've transformed their dev workflow. 🚀 youtu.be/0CaVj1YBw2M?... #AspireDev
Customer Spotlight: Aspire for Windows 365 - Aspire Conf 2026
Customer Spotlight: Aspire for Windows 365 - Reliability, Extensibility, and Multi-Repo Rollout with AI We'll share how Windows 365 doubled Aspire adoption while improving reliability by driving E2E…
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