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Learning Dapr

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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, both 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 applications
Write high-performance distributed applications without drilling into technical details
Use Dapr with any language or framework to write microservices easily
Learn how Dapr provides consistency and portability through open APIs and extensible, community-driven components
Explore how Dapr handles state, resource bindings, and pub-sub messaging to enable resilient event-driven architectures that scale
Integrate cloud applications with various SaaS offerings, such as machine learning

218 pages, ebook

Published August 24, 2020

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46 reviews
June 14, 2022
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.
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September 28, 2020
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?
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270 reviews
January 14, 2023
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.
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