.NET Rocks! Aspire in 2026 with Maddy Montaquila
Jan 29, 2026
Maddy Montaquila, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and product lead for Aspire, guides the tool’s multi-language and multi-cloud future. She talks about broadening support beyond .NET to JavaScript and Python. She covers CLI, in-dashboard Copilot, multi-cloud deployments, AI integration with Foundry, docs and stabilization, and pathways to add Aspire to new and existing projects.
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Aspire Is A Local-First App Orchestrator
- Aspire is a local-first, type-safe manifest system that orchestrates distributed apps across languages and platforms.
- It treats websites with databases as distributed apps and provides a unified project/CLI experience.
Live 'Aspirify' Streams Harden The Product
- The Aspire team live-streams 'Aspirify' sessions where they add Aspire to users' apps and often encounter the same quirks.
- These sessions are playful, educational, and help harden the product through real-world failures.
AI As A First-Class Distributed Endpoint
- Aspire treats AI components as first-class distributed endpoints and integrates them into app manifests.
- That makes embedding local or cloud models (like Foundry/Olama) simpler inside an existing app topology.