This workshop will teach you everything you need to know to start building distributed systems in .NET and ASP.NET Core, and how to combine multiple services to choose the right tool for each use case you might encounter. We will define clear requirements for a system and proceed to build the entire system using all the services and tools you will use to build your own systems later at your company.

- Defining the system we need to build with clear requirements
- Introduction to RESTful Services
- Understanding Monoliths and Microservices
- Using relational databases
- Using NoSQL databases
- Understanding what “cloud native” means
- Understanding event-driven architecture
- Using Messaging and Queues
- Using Events
- Using Redis as a distributed cache
- Implementing observability with OpenTelemetry
- Using .NET Aspire to run our system locally
- Dockerizing our system
- Deploying services to the cloud
- Introduction to Performance Testing

This workshop is for backend developers with some experience writing web applications using C# and ASP.NET Core. You must be able to read, write, and debug C# at a decent level and have some experience with ASP.NET Core.

- Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider or Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit installed
- .NET 9
- Docker or Podman
- Minikube
- Azure CLI
- Lens or k9s (Optional)
- Insomnia (Optional)
- A Free Tier Azure Account

1 Day

Building cloud native, distributed systems with .NET Aspire

.NET

Azure

Cloud


Comprehensive hands-on workshop covering generative AI application development in .NET using Microsoft Extensions for AI. Participants will learn to build production-ready AI applications with vector databases, RAG patterns, function calling, and deploy them using .NET Aspire. The workshop includes practical experience with MCP servers, AI orchestration, and enterprise deployment patterns.




• Building generative AI applications with Microsoft Extensions for AI
• Implementing vector databases for semantic search and embeddings
• Creating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns
• Function calling and AI tool integration
• Deploying AI applications with .NET Aspire
• Building and integrating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers

Workshops

09:00 - 17:00 (UTC+01)

Building cloud native, distributed systems with .NET Aspire

Nick Chapsas

Building AI Applications with .NET

Jon Galloway

James Montemagno