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I migrated my application from Docker Compose to Aspire.
Here's what I learned during the transition.
I've been using Aspire for almost every new project.
But what is Aspire?
It's Microsoft's cloud-native development tool.
".NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready, distributed applications."
It solves many things for you out of the box:
- Orchestration
- Service discovery
- Health checks, reliability
- OpenTelemetry (logging + tracing + metrics)
I often use Docker Compose to configure my applications for localhost. It's a simple setup. But you need to manage environment variables and connection strings. If you're unfamiliar with Docker, it can be tricky sometimes.
Aspire simplifies this whole setup.
So, I migrated this application to Aspire and documented the process.
Here's the complete breakdown (+source code): https://t.co/ST9tnziX82
What do you think about Aspire?
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When creating a method that returns json using a raw string literal add
/* lang=json*/
Which is undocumented. If there is a syntax issue like a missing comma Visual Studio will flag it.
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How can you enforce your software architecture rules?
The C# compiler is pretty limited, and code reviews are expensive.
Luckily, there's a middle ground that I use in my projects.
Architecture testing.
These are automated tests that verify the structure and design of your code.
You can use them to enforce design rules expressed with C# code.
- Enforce the direction of project dependencies
- Define naming conventions for classes
- Force classes to be sealed
Here's how you can write your first architecture test in minutes: https://t.co/L7eIHdb7pQ
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