How to Ship Distributed Systems with Confidence

Build a real cloud-native distributed system in .NET with Aspire.

How to Ship Distributed Systems with Confidence teaches you how modern distributed applications are designed, built, and evolved for production. Using Aspire as the practical foundation, you’ll construct a realistic e-commerce application step by step and learn the patterns behind cloud-native software: service composition, local orchestration, service discovery, infrastructure integration, observability, security, and deployment.

You’ll see how distributed systems are structured, how their services communicate, and how applications connect to databases, caches, message brokers, containers, and other infrastructure dependencies. Along the way, you’ll solve real-world problems that appear in production systems, from making service discovery work with SignalR clients to preparing applications for Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes.

In How to Ship Distributed Systems with Confidence, you’ll discover:

• How a cloud-native distributed application is structured, and how its services communicate
• How to model, run, observe, and debug multi-service applications locally with Aspire
• How to connect services to databases, caches, message brokers, containers, and other infrastructure
• How to apply service discovery, local orchestration, observability, and security in one evolving system
• How to move from local development to production deployments with Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

Rather than learning Aspire as an isolated framework, you’ll use it to understand how distributed systems really work. By the end, you’ll know not only how to use Aspire, but how to design and evolve cloud-native applications that are easier to build, operate, and ship.