--- title: Talk - Microservices for building an IDE - The innards... description: A conference talk from TechDays Finland 2019 covers the architecture behind JetBrains Rider, a .NET IDE. It explains why the team built and open-sourced a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/talk---microservices-for-building-an-ide---the-innards-of-jetbrains-rider---techdays-2019---finland--jxlpy5h5c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Talk - Microservices for building an IDE - The innards of JetBrains Rider - TechDays 2019 - Finland - Helsinki | daily.dev og:description: A conference talk from TechDays Finland 2019 covers the architecture behind JetBrains Rider, a .NET IDE. It explains why the team built and open-sourced a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/talk---microservices-for-building-an-ide---the-innards-of-jetbrains-rider---techdays-2019---finland--jxlpy5h5c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JxLpy5h5c.png og:image:alt: Talk - Microservices for building an IDE - The innards of JetBrains Rider - TechDays 2019 - Finland - Helsinki og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Talk - Microservices for building an IDE - The innards of JetBrains Rider - TechDays 2019 - Finland - Helsinki **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conference talk from TechDays Finland 2019 covers the architecture behind JetBrains Rider, a .NET IDE. It explains why the team built and open-sourced a reactive protocol and how Rider uses a microservices-style architecture to connect the debugger, Roslyn, a WPF renderer, and external tools like Unity3D, both in-process and across separate processes. Slides are shared and a companion CODE Magazine article is linked. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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