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Introducing Dapr

Welcome to this second edition of Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET! Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) evolved greatly after the version one release and the innovations in .NET 6 prompted a refreshed and enriched edition of the book.

This chapter will introduce you to the Dapr project to teach you the core concepts of its architecture and prepare you to develop with Dapr.

Dapr accelerates the development of new cloud-native applications and simplifies the adoption of a microservice architecture.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding Dapr
  • Exploring Dapr
  • Setting up Dapr
  • Building our first Dapr sample

Learning about these topics is important to establish a solid foundation ...

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