Contributor Podcast: Simplifying Distributed Systems: Dapr with Mark Fussell
In this episode, Mark and Eric Anderson discuss:
- The difference between Dapr and a service mesh
- How Dapr is beneficial for platform engineering teams
- From Microsoft to Diagrid in the startup world
- The significance of Dapr’s graduation from the CNCF
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/AI Agents: Keeping systems (and costs) in check
Can your AI agents survive production AND your budget? In this episode, Yaron Schneider, CTO and co-founder of Diagrid and creator of the foundational open-source tools Dapr and KEDA, unpacks what it takes to build AI agents that are durable, cost-aware and enterprise-ready.
DevOps Paradox: Stop Reinventing The Wheel - Use Dapr Instead
Most microservices teams still rebuild the same distributed-systems foundations—service discovery, messaging, state management, and security—despite years of evolution in architecture. Dapr eliminates this repetition by providing standardized, language-agnostic APIs that abstract common patterns while preserving infrastructure flexibility.
Process Debt Swamps Platform Teams, A Conversation with Mark Fussell, SPaMCAST 879
Mark Fussell dives into a challenge that’s becoming increasingly common in modern engineering organizations: process debt — and how it’s quietly overwhelming platform teams.
