part two

Part 2 Real-time features and AI: Making apps interactive

Distributed apps aren’t just about more services; they’re also about better experiences. In this part, you’ll use Aspire as the backbone for features that depend on tight feedback loops: real-time updates and AI-powered interactions.

First, you’ll add live order tracking with SignalR so users can see state changes as they happen. Then you’ll build something more ambitious: a ChatGPT-style app that runs locally with open models using Ollama and integrates intelligence into your application using Semantic Kernel. The goal isn’t AI for the sake of AI; it’s learning the patterns that make these systems reliable, debuggable, and easy to evolve.