State of Dapr report 2023

Dapr is transforming distributed application development, and our inaugural State of Dapr 2023 Report shows exactly how.
Based on a Dimensional Research survey of 151 active Dapr users, the report reveals that 95% of respondents agree Dapr saves developer time, with 55% seeing productivity gains of 30% or more by leveraging Dapr’s core building blocks for service invocation, pub/sub, state management, and secrets management . Since its late-2019 debut, Dapr has grown into a graduated CNCF project with over 6,500 Discord members, 2,900 contributors, and 22,300 GitHub stars—ranking 10th of 157 CNCF projects.
With Dapr decoupling your code from infrastructure—and support for Redis, Kafka, and 16+ other backends—this report arms you with ROI data, real-world feedback, and strategies to accelerate your microservices journey.
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