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The .NET Aspire Dashboard is a centralized view into distributed application insights, environment variables, logs, traces, and monitoring capabilities. The .NET Aspire Dashboard isn't just a traditional insights dashboard; it also allows developers to manage applications to some extent. For example, resources can be started and stopped directly

Last year, I read a book called Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford. The book comprehensively covered different architecture patterns, architecture characteristics, soft skills, and practices overall. One very interesting chapter delved into architectural testing, often referred to as fitness functions. Currently, I&

In the earlier blog post, I showed how to configure a Curity Identity Server container in a .NET Aspire solution. In this blog post, I'll continue refactoring the Curity configuration to be even more straightforward and reusable. I'll introduce you to the .NET Aspire concept called

I started to use .NET Aspire when the first preview was launched. I wrote a blog post about my first impressions at the end of 2023. Now, it's good to revisit this and update the lessons learned story. I held a presentation titled "Shift to .NET Aspire

.NET Aspire was published a couple of weeks ago and we started to utilize it immediately in one new project. We knew that there would be some hiccups because .NET Aspire is still in preview. The official release is planned for the first half of 2024. 💡Experience in this article

I gathered to this blog post a list of external libraries that I usually add to a greenfield .NET API project. Most of these libraries can be used also in other project types as well. These libraries streamline the developer's work and make code more maintainable and easier

I recently purchased a few Philips Hue lights. My goal is to create a small kind of home automation with the lights. Automation capabilities are good and easily configurable with the Philips Hue mobile app. I added a few lights to the kids' room and they can now change