Brady Gaster on SignalR and More - Episode 102

This week, Brady Gaster is joining The Azure DevOps Podcast to discuss all things SignalR and beyond.

Brady is a Senior Program Manager in the ASP.NET team at Microsoft where he works on SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes to make it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!

ASP.NET SignalR is a library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. In this episode, Brady takes listeners on a deep dive about SignalR; sharing how it has evolved over the last year, where and how to use it, and many of the ins and outs. Beyond SignalR, Brady and Jeffrey also have discussions around OpenAPI, end-to-end, Microsoft Edge Canary, Blazor, WebAssembly, and more! This episode is jam-packed with insights, key learnings, and fascinating tidbits about what Brady has been working on in the last while!

Topics of Discussion:

[:38] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes.

[:46] About The Azure DevOps Podcast and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:43] About today's episode with Brady Gaster!

[2:07] Jeffrey welcomes Brady to the podcast.

[2:42] The current state of SignalR and how it has evolved over the last year.

[5:05] When to use SignalR.

[7:51] Brady highlights some of the things to watch out for with SignalR.

[13:06] Brady shares his thoughts about Blazor.

[17:10] Is Azure Applications Insights live metrics using SignalR or WebSockets?

[17:39] Brady shares a couple of interesting Windows features that tie to your phone with SignalR.

[20:35] Discussing streaming via SignalR.