Learning Dapr: Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications

by Haishi Bai, Yaron Schneider

Get the authoritative guide to Dapr, the distributed application runtime that works with new and existing programming languages alike. Written by the model’s creators, this introduction shows you how Dapr not only unifies stateless, stateful, and actor programming models but also runs everywhere—in the cloud or on the edge.

Authors Haishi Bai and Yaron Schneider with Microsoft’s Azure CTO team explain that, with Dapr, you don’t need to include any SDKs or libraries in your user code. Instead, you automatically get flexible binding, state management, the actor pattern, pub-sub, reliable messaging, and many more features. This book shows developers, architects, CIOs, students, and computing enthusiasts how to get started with Dapr.

Learn the new programming model for cloud native applicationsWrite high-performance distributed applications without drilling into technical detailsUse Dapr with any language or framework to write microservices easilyLearn how Dapr provides consistency and portability through open APIs and extensible, community-driven componentsExplore how Dapr handles state, resource bindings, and pub-sub messaging to enable resilient event-driven architectures that scaleIntegrate cloud applications with various SaaS offerings, such as machine learning

Genres: Programming, Technology

380 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 24, 2020

Reviews

[Debashish Mishra · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is pretty good and I got introduced to many recent tools and solutions in distributed computing.

Considering it's a rapidly evolving product, there is a gap in the code samples shown and how it works in practice. You will have to struggle a bit to make the samples work. A regular update of errata page will help.

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 2 out of 5]

DAPR is a sidecar which provides some useful features for microservices on Kubernetes.
Unfortunately, the most described feature is support of "Actors" . Who needs it?

[Jakub · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro book. Lost a lot by providing a lot of examples in different languages. Lack of showing full blown example. Book concentrated to show features instead of real life use case.