Introducing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr): Simplifying Microservices Applications Development Through Proven and Reusable Patterns and Practices

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13. Plugging Middleware

Radoslav Gatev¹  

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Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria

 

Being able to change the behavior or to extend the functionality of a piece of software, without changing it from the inside, is pretty neat. In this chapter, you will learn how to plug middleware in the request pipeline of Dapr to deal with things like rate limiting, authentication, and authorization.

Middleware in Dapr

Using middleware is a very popular technique for request-based pipelines. It is essentially a system for chaining plugins that do some kind of processing on a request, ...