August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
5h 50m
English
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Introduction
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.
What Is Dapr?
Dapr is a an event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices for the cloud and the edge. It uses a companion container or process to deliver the building blocks needed by distributed applications, including state management, service discovery, reliable messaging, observability, and more, which will be discussed in detail later. Dapr companion processes, or sidecars, expose a standard API surface through HTTP/gRPC protocols. This allows Dapr to support any programming language that supports HTTP or gRPC without requiring ...
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