Dapr : The Ultimate Developer API for Authoring Microservices

Dapr’s Features and Functionality 🚀 Dapr offers a range of APIs, including the newer Dapr workflows, which enhance the capabilities and functionality of the platform. 🌐 The rise of cloud-native approaches has introduced new challenges for developers, such as state management and ensuring secure and consistent persistence of state in individual microservices. 🌍 Dapr’s building block APIs enable developers to create portable applications that are not tied to any specific language or framework, promoting flexibility and interoperability. ⚙️ Dapper’s concept of resiliency acknowledges the inevitability of failure in systems, highlighting the importance of building robust and fault-tolerant microservices. 🔧 Developers can define their own fault tolerance policies using a resiliency manifest, allowing for customization and fine-tuning of the application’s behavior. 🐳 Dapper also includes a Dapper Zipkin container for distributed tracing, allowing developers to easily track and analyze the flow of requests and responses in their microservices architecture. 🌐 Dapr supports both programmatic and declarative subscriptions, providing flexibility in how developers can subscribe to topics and handle events in their applications. 🌐 Dapr provides a convenient way for applications to subscribe to specific topics on a broker, ensuring that messages are only received by the intended subscribers. 💡 Dapr’s multi-op run capability allows developers to consolidate multiple Dapper applications into one manifest, simplifying the process of running and managing microservices. 🆔 Giving each individual application a unique Dapper app ID is critical for service invocation and allows for easy identification and communication between apps. 💾 The Dapr API allows developers to easily store data in a backing Redis component, providing a convenient way to persist information. 💪 The State Management API offers a range of powerful features, including strong consistency, optimistic concurrency control, transactions, and state encryption, providing developers with flexibility and security for managing application state. Dapr’s Community and Momentum 💡 Dapr is a community-driven and vendor-neutral project that has gained significant momentum, becoming the 10th largest CNCF project with over 2,800 contributors on GitHub. 📈 The number of Dapr components continues to grow with every release, showcasing the momentum and flexibility of the Dapr project. 💪 The growth of the Dapper user base and the increasing adoption of its APIs as a standard is empowering more and more organizations to embrace microservices architecture. Dapr’s Benefits for Developers 🔃 By using Dapr, developers can leverage a variety of Azure services such as Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Cosmos DB for secrets, pub-sub implementation, and state API respectively, without the need to modify their application code. 💡 Dapr allows developers to focus on writing business logic instead of dealing with complex plumbing code for distributed application concerns. PUBLICATION PERMISSIONS: Original video was published with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Link: