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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.
About the book
In this book, you'll learn how a modern application evolves from a simple set of services into a production-ready distributed system. Using Aspire as the hands-on foundation, you'll explore the practical patterns behind cloud-native development, including service composition, local orchestration, service discovery, infrastructure integration, observability, deployment, and security.
Through the step-by-step construction of a realistic e-commerce application, you'll gain practical experience with how distributed systems are organised, how their components communicate, and how services connect to databases, caches, message brokers, containers, and other infrastructure dependencies. You'll also work through the kinds of edge cases that make or break real systems, including service discovery with SignalR clients and deployment to cloud environments such as Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes.
About the reader
For .NET developers and software architects who know C# and want practical experience building cloud-native distributed applications. No prior Aspire experience required.
About the author
Fiodar Sazanavets is a senior software engineer, independent consultant, and author specializing in large-scale, data-intensive distributed systems built with .NET and Azure. He previously worked at Microsoft and has written several technical books and training courses on .NET, cloud architecture, and software engineering. He is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.
