The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice development and connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service-to-service invocation or publish-subscribe messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secure microservices. Dapr provides APIs that abstract away the complexity of common challenges developers encounter regularly when building distributed applications. These API building blocks can be leveraged as the need arises to use one, several or all to develop application faster and deliver solution on time. By letting Dapr’s sidecar take care of the complex challenges such as service discovery, message broker integration, encryption, observability, and secret management, developers can focus on business logic and keep code simple.

In this session, I introduce Dapr, the fundamentals of the framework, its salient features, how Dapr can accelerate microservices development and incrementally adopted. This is accompanied with code walkthrough of a prototype illustrating some of the highlighted features of Dapr and a working demonstration of an example microservices using Dapr framework.