Dapr Day 2024
as the organisers put it
Virtual Event - Join us for Dapr Day to learn all about building microservices with standard building block APIs that work with any language.
who it's for
application developers using Dapr, platform engineers, .NET developers, cloud-native engineers, site reliability engineers, maintainers and open source contributors, data engineers
topics
Dapr sidecar + gRPC; Dapr Workflows for orchestration; Dapr actors and placement service; bindings for event sourcing and CQRS; transactional outbox patterns; state stores with Cosmos DB; OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics; conversational APIs and LLM integrations; observability with Prometheus/New Relic; Azure AKS deployments with Dapr; Redis/Dapr store for agent memory; scheduler and actor reminders API
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Cecil L. Phillip, Marc Duiker | 05m |
Live stream opens with housekeeping: join the Discord with 7.7k users for real‑time questions and community support, chat and Twitter are monitored for Q&A… | ||
| Opening keynote | Mark Russinovich | 28m |
Five years after the public 2019 launch Dapr is a working cloud-native runtime: a sidecar pattern that provides service invocation over HTTP/gRPC, pub/sub and… | ||
| Dapr & Kubernetes at SharperImage.com: Experiences from the Trenches | Alice Gibbons, Aaron Olds | 21m |
Migrated a 70‑service ASP.NET Core platform on EKS from a homegrown framework to Dapr sidecars using Dapr sidecar + gRPC with mTLS, Zipkin tracing, Datadog… | ||
| Processing one million data points daily with Dapr | Siri Varma Vegiraju | 26m |
Processes about one million data points daily by replacing ad‑hoc checkpointing with Dapr Workflows that run parent/child workflows and use GetState/SaveState… | ||
| Dapr Heroes announcement | Cecil L. Phillip, Marc Duiker | 05m |
A new Dapr community program launches, naming four inaugural Meteors and promising concrete benefits: participation in Dapr planning calls, listing on the Dapr… | ||
| Maintainers Roadmap | Yaron Schneider | 16m |
Announces a conversational API in Dapr 1.15 that does batch inferencing and plugs to AWS Bedrock OpenAI Anthropic Mistral and Hugging Face with per-provider… | ||
| Bindings for Event Sourcing and CQRS capabilities in Dapr applications | Marc Klefter | 25m |
A custom Dapr component implements command/event/query routing to an external event store, exposing operations to read prior events and append new events for… | ||
| Floki: Building Agentic Workflows with Dapr | Roberto Rodriguez | 35m |
Floki is an open source Python framework that layers LLM-savvy tasks and agents on top of Dapr Workflows, turning function calls into orchestrated agentic… | ||
| Dapr and .NET Aspire - A New Era for Observability | Harry Kimpel | 28m |
Demo shows a .NET Aspire app extended with two branches (Dapr CLI and Aspire integration), running sidecars and apphost via dotnet run, sending OpenTelemetry… | ||
| The Dapr Actors Journey: From Understanding to Intuition | Elena Kolevska | 31m |
Dapr implements the virtual actor model where actor identity is type+ID, state persists in external stores, and actors execute single-threaded with isolation… | ||
| Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey | Whit Waldo | 35m |
Builds a .NET SaaS on Azure using Dapr for local/cloud parity, actor-based user registration and monthly invoicing, and workflows for payment retries; uses the… | ||
| Closing keynote | Joe Beda | 18m |
Argues a platform must enable uses its builders never imagined and contrasts toolkit vs framework tradeoffs using concrete examples: Kubernetes’ object model… | ||
| Give away & Closing | Cecil L. Phillip, Marc Duiker | 21m |
Live closing runs a nine-question Kahoot with a Lego C3PO prize, warns of 20–30s stream delay and short answer windows, and reports concrete numbers: Dapr… | ||
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