David and Emme welcome Mark Fussell (Co-founder of Dapr and the CEO of Diagrid) on this episode of Dynamically Speaking! The group dives into the origin story of Dapr, how it fits into the cloud-native ecosystem, and why it matters for developers building modern, distributed applications. They also touch on Dapr’s relationship with CNCF, open standards collaboration, and how AI and agentic frameworks are shaping the future of secure, usable app architectures.
In this episode:
- The evolution of Dapr and Mark’s journey from Microsoft to leading Diagrid
- The role of CNCF and open standards in advancing innovation
- How Dapr intersects with today’s hottest IAM and security topics
