Wael Rabadi

Husband & dad first! #SoftwareEngineer as hobby & by trade, deep thinker, optimization seeker and faith learner. Thoughts are my own!

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

@davidfowl Another cross platform challenge is local DNS management

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@nickchapsas What's your thoughts on this?
https://t.co/xtNkYz9Xas

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

@davidfowl They still need to get to AST level.

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@DamianEdwards Given the nature of scripts the tendency is to manage a single file. With C# pkgs are a necessity for the most part. Would include also cover nuget pkgs? Then dotnet CLI would just build and run

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

@DamianEdwards Yes

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

@DamianEdwards Makes sense. It feels like a new language tho- when you'd expect line #1 to signal special top-level handling and done

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One of NDL's core promises is **polyglot support**: the same workflow works whether you're using Node.js, Deno, .NET, or any other runtime. -> https://t.co/5vw8ELMdz7

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12/ Question for you:

What local dev pain points do you face with distributed systems?

Port conflicts? Manual wiring? Config drift? Integration failures?

Would love to hear what makes local dev painful for your team.

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11/ Full technical writeup with architecture details:

https://t.co/qLGgXOEoVh

Building in the open. Early access available.

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

1/ "Works on my machine" syndrome—solved.

NDL brings production patterns (DNS, gateways, service discovery) to local dev. Test distributed systems the way they run in production.

Blog post → https://t.co/qLGgXOEoVh
5-min demo → https://t.co/USuz2CjzsZ

🧵 How it works:

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10/ Demo video (2 min):
Watch a .NET multi-service app (DB + API + Web) come up with DNS names and gateway routing:

https://t.co/lA38vzvZwT

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8/ We're not recreating Kubernetes locally.

We're borrowing its architectural ideas:
- Declarative resources
- Reconciliation loops
- Operator ownership

And making them work for laptop-first development.

[Wael Rabadi @rabadiw]

7/ Key features:

• DNS names instead of localhost ports
• Gateway routing (single entrypoint)
• Service discovery (no hardcoded URLs)
• Declarative setup (repeatable)
• Polyglot (Node, .NET, Python, Go—same workflow)