.NET Rocks! Aspire in 2026 with Maddy Montaquila
Jan 29, 2026
Maddy Montaquila, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft who led .NET MAUI work and now leads Aspire. She discusses Aspire as a local-first, type-safe toolkit for building cloud-native, distributed apps. She covers multi-language support for Python and JavaScript, multi-cloud compatibility, new CLI and copilot features, versioning choices, deployment and CI/CD plans, and AI and Foundry integrations.
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Aspire Is A Local-First App Orchestrator
- Aspire is a local-first, type-safe manifest and CLI for building distributed apps across languages and platforms.
- It orchestrates services, databases, and front-ends like a supercharged, re-entrant project runner.
AI As A First-Class Backend Resource
- Aspire treats AI as another backend type so LLMs and agentic components plug in as resources.
- That makes integrating local models or cloud AI into a distributed app consistent and composable.
Dropped .NET Name To Embrace Polyglot Reality
- Aspire removed the '.NET' branding to acknowledge multi-language, multi-cloud reality.
- The team focuses on first-class support for Python and JavaScript alongside .NET.