Learning Dapr: Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications

Over the years, many distributed programming models and frameworks have been introduced, such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), COM+, Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Akka, Microsoft Service Fabric actors, and many others. This book introduces our contribution, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), which has been well received by the community so far. Dapr is a new distributed runtime that is under active development. The best way to get up-to-date information is to visit Dapr’s official website. Instead of focusing on API details, this book aims to provide background information on how Dapr is designed and how we see it evolving in the future. We hope the book can help you understand the architecture and design philosophy of Dapr so that you can better apply Dapr in your own applications and make great contributions to the Dapr community.