Business AI Demo FAQs

Question 1

What is the Business AI Demo?

Accepted Answer

The Business AI Demo showcases how to seamlessly integrate AI capabilities into typical .NET business applications. It enables AI-powered interactions with processed and stored business events, providing a hands-on learning experience for modern AI development.

Question 2

What key technologies are used in this demo?

Accepted Answer

This demo combines an event-driven architecture with Kafka for data processing, AI integration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for data interaction, and .NET Aspire for comprehensive orchestration and observability, all within the .NET Platform.

Question 3

How does the AI interact with business data?

Accepted Answer

An MCP Server exposes business data stored in PostgreSQL through standardized APIs. The interactive AI chat interface (MCP.Host) then uses these 'AI tools' (e.g., get_recent_payments) to query the data and provide intelligent responses based on business events.

Question 4

What business scenario does the demo simulate?

Accepted Answer

The demo simulates a simple e-commerce flow. It generates mock order events, processes them via Kafka, stores them in a PostgreSQL database, and then makes this data accessible for AI-powered queries through a chat interface.

Question 5

What is the role of .NET Aspire in this project?

Accepted Answer

.NET Aspire acts as the main orchestrator, managing all the services (Producer, Consumer, MCP.Server, MCP.Host, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Valkey). It provides a unified development experience with integrated observability, logging, and metrics for the entire distributed system.

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