Accelerating Microservices Development, with Param Gunasekaran & Jasim Schluter

The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service-to-service invocation or publish-subscribe messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Dapr provides you with 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 - use one, several or all to develop your application faster and deliver your 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, you can focus on business logic and keep your code simple.

In this session, you will be introduced to Dapr, the fundamentals of the framework, its salient features, how Dapr can accelerate your Microservices development and how you can incrementally adopt Dapr in your workplace immediately. This will be accompanied with code walkthrough of a proof-of-concept prototype illustrating some of the highlighted features of Dapr and a working demonstration of the prototype containing example microservices using Dapr framework.

About Param

Param is a Software Architect at Pacom Systems. His focus areas include architecture and design of large-scale enterprise software systems and IoT platforms in the Cloud, hybrid and on-premises datacentres. He is a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect and a Microsoft Certified Professional who has been working in Microsoft .NET and opensource technologies for more than 15 years.

About Jasim

Jasim is a Software Architect at Pacom Systems working on physical security systems and air-gapped alarm and access control systems. He sold his 3 bitcoins at $200 each.

This was recorded at our August 2022 meeting.