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Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems | RedMonk Conversation with James Governor

Mark Fussell discusses Dapr, a runtime designed to simplify the development of distributed applications.
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Dapr University - Running Dapr Workflows with Catalyst

Catalyst streamlines your development efforts and provides greater observability and governance.
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Dapr for Spring Boot & Quarkus

Practical integration patterns, local development setups, and workflow execution models.
Mauricio Salatino
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Jan 13, 2026
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January 13, 2026

Dapr, Simple APIs, & Distributed Systems | RedMonk Conversation with James Governor

Mark Fussell discusses Dapr, a runtime designed to simplify the development of distributed applications.

Dec 10, 2025
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December 10, 2025

Dapr University - Running Dapr Workflows with Catalyst

Catalyst streamlines your development efforts and provides greater observability and governance.

Nov 7, 2025
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November 7, 2025

Dapr for Spring Boot & Quarkus

Practical integration patterns, local development setups, and workflow execution models.

Mauricio Salatino
Oct 22, 2025
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October 22, 2025

Failure is Not an Option: Durable Execution + Dapr = 🚀

How durable execution with Dapr workflow can help you build resilient applications.

Sep 25, 2025
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September 25, 2025

Dapr 1.16 Release Webinar: Key Highlights and Takeaways

To mark the Dapr 1.16 release, the Diagrid team hosted a review of all the new features and enhancements found in this version.

Marc Duiker
Sep 18, 2025
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September 18, 2025

The Weekly Developer Show: Dapr, Pixels and Generative Art, Open Source and Communities

Marc Duiker joins WeAreDevelopers to explore Dapr, microservices, tech news, creative coding, and geeky fun.

May 20, 2025
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May 20, 2025

‍Durable Execution with Dapr & Diagrid: Code-First Workflows for Cloud-Native and AI Agents

As AI agents become more autonomous, orchestrating their behavior within reliable systems is critical. Dapr Workflows, now supporting LLM-driven agents, enables structured, fault-tolerant coordination. Dapr Agents and Workflows power agentic AI with durable execution, event-driven scalability, and built-in observability. See how Dapr simplifies multi-agent automation, decision-making, and inter-agent collaboration for production-ready AI systems.

May 30, 2025
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May 30, 2025

Building Cross-Language Microservices with Dapr

How Dapr simplifies microservice development across languages, and Dapr's AI capabilities in the creation of LLM-powered agentic systems.

Jun 20, 2025
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June 20, 2025

Event-driven applications with Cloudflare queues and Dapr

Gift Egwuenu, developer advocate at Cloudflare talks to Marc Duiker, developer advocate at Diagrid, as they walkthrough how to use Cloudflare Queues and Dapr to build an event-driven application.

Jul 29, 2025
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July 29, 2025

Déployer un microservice à travers différents Cloud? Découvrez Dapr

Hajed Khlifi et Jérémy Albrecht partagent lors des Voxxed Days Luxembourg, leur retour d'expérience sur Dapr une solution open source de la CNCF qui réduit la complexité des architectures de microservices et assure leur portabilité entre les environnements on-premise et multicloud.

Aug 25, 2025
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August 25, 2025

Simplifying Cloud-native Java App Testing Across Environments

Simplify testing cloud-native Spring Boot applications across different environments by abstracting away infrastructure complexity and relying on contract-based testing with three key tools: Testcontainers, Dapr, and Microcks. Together, these patterns allow developers to test services in isolation with realistic simulations, reduce cognitive and resource load, and ensure consistency from local development to Kubernetes and cloud environments.

Aug 21, 2025
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August 21, 2025

Kubernetes Isn’t Enough with Mark Fussell from Diagrid & Dapr

Diagrid CEO Mark Fussell joins DevOps Accents to discuss how Dapr is redefining distributed systems and powering the next generation of AI agents.

May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025

Tales from the trenches: Building a distributed system with Aspire and Dapr

Nico Vermeir's NDC presentation: the war story of building a distributed system with .NET Aspire + Dapr for a large government project

Aug 5, 2025
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August 5, 2025

Building Durable Multi-Agent AI Workflows with Dapr Agents

Dapr Agents is a workflow solution for durable, production-ready, scalable, and fault-tolerant AI agents. Dive into how Dapr Agents leverages Dapr’s distributed runtime to enable secure agent-to-agent communication, stateful workflows, and seamless integration with enterprise infrastructure.

Yaron Schneider
May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025

Building Resilient Cloud-Native Microservices

Learn how to build resilient cloud-native microservices using Dapr and modern Azure hosting solutions like AKS and ACA.

Jul 9, 2025
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July 9, 2025

Agentic Shift in Microservices | Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Mark Fussell shares how Dapr simplifies building microservices and the growing impact of AI and agentic applications on backend development.

Jul 30, 2025
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July 30, 2025

Building Resilient AI Agents with Dapr and Amazon EKS

Diagrid co-founders Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider show how to run AI agents that are durable and resilient to failures. Building on Dapr and Amazon EKS Auto Mode, they show how Dapr's pub/sub APIs allows for seamless multi-agent collaboration, and examine how workflows in Dapr can make any agentic framework reliable and durable.

May 23, 2025
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May 23, 2025

The Fastest Way to Build Cloud-Native Apps with .NET Aspire and Dapr

Jul 2, 2025
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July 2, 2025

Build Robust Agentic Workflows with Dapr & Dapr Agents

Build durable agents that are resilient to failures, network outages, and full system shutdowns

Yaron Schneider
Jun 26, 2025
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June 26, 2025

Kubecon Keynote: Platform Alchemy: Transforming Kubernetes Into Generative AI Gold

The evolution of platform engineering from traditional applications to generative AI (GenAI), and how existing tools will adapt and transform rather than become obsolete.

Mauricio Salatino
Jun 25, 2025
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June 25, 2025

How Dapr Agent Brings Resilience to AI-Driven Automation on Kubernetes

Dapr Agents brings production-ready durability to AI agents on Kubernetes. An interview with Yaron Schneider that covers use cases, community feedback, and roadmap including Anthropic MCP integration.

Yaron Schneider
Jun 25, 2025
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June 25, 2025

Dapr University Workshop - Workflow

Use durable execution to build resilient distributed applications

Marc Duiker
Jun 23, 2025
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June 23, 2025

Is Dapr the Future of Microservices?

The Dynatrace team discusses various Dapr deployment models, Dapr building blocks, configuration options for core settings, resiliency, and components, and provides practical examples of its use with PostgreSQL and Kafka. It also covers observability features, tracing, metrics, and logging capabilities.

Apr 15, 2025
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April 15, 2025

Dapr in 2025: Durable Execution for AgenticAI System

In their KubeCon Europe 2025 session, Yaron Schneider and Roberto Rodriguez explored the cutting-edge features of Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) that empower developers to build agentic AI systems—AI-driven workflows that operate autonomously, adapt dynamically, and interact securely across distributed systems.

Jun 2, 2025
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June 2, 2025

Harnessing Dapr Actors: Building Scalable Applications with Confidence - Whit Waldo, CEO, Innovian

Whit Waldo, CEO of Innovian, explores how to build scalable, reliable applications using the Dapr Actor model. Whether you’re new to Dapr or looking to deepen your understanding of event-driven design, this session offers actionable guidance for modern microservices development.

May 28, 2025
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May 28, 2025

Dapr 101 Workshop

A hands-on workshop to learn how to use Dapr to build distributed applications

Marc Duiker
May 15, 2025
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May 15, 2025

10 Methods for Improving Dapr Operations with Diagrid Conductor

Managing Dapr in production can be demanding, but with the right tools and practices, you can automate operational tasks and increase uptime.

Alice Gibbons
May 16, 2025
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May 16, 2025

2025 Dapr AI Hackathon Kickoff

Build AI applications powered by Dapr Workflows & Dapr Agents for a chance to win up to $3000 💰

Kendall Roden
Mar 26, 2025
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March 26, 2025

State of Dapr 2025: Key Trends and Insights for Cloud Native Development

Dapr continues to gain momentum, with enterprise adoption expanding, mission-critical usage increasing, and new capabilities shaping the future of cloud native development. The State of Dapr 2025 Report - based on insights from over 200 practitioners - reveals how organizations are leveraging Dapr to simplify distributed systems, improve developer efficiency, and enhance cloud portability.

Marc Duiker
Jan 31, 2024
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January 31, 2024

Dapr as the Ultimate Microservices Patterns Framework

Join Bilgin Ibryam, Diagrid Product Manager and O'Reilly co-author of "Kubernetes Patterns" as he explains how Dapr meets the needs of modern microservice-based applications.

Dec 14, 2024
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December 14, 2024

A Deep Dive into Cilium and Dapr Integration

Explore the intersection of Cilium and Dapr, two powerful tools that offer a fresh perspective on microservice development and application networking.

Dec 17, 2024
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December 17, 2024

Migrating from Kafka to Pulsar. How FICO harnesses Dapr to build high scale messaging.

Learn about FICO’s experience migrating from Apache Kafka to Apache Pulsar with the help of Dapr to build high scale messaging services into our platform.

Dec 12, 2024
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December 12, 2024

Serverless Dapr on AWS

Catalyst lets you deploy and build on Dapr in record time while offloading infrastructure concerns. Serverless Dapr now provides features like AWS IAM integration, streaming pub/sub, and managed workflow.

Kendall Roden
Dec 11, 2024
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December 11, 2024

Hands-on Dapr Workflow Workshop

Code along in this hands-on workshop on authoring stateful business processes using the powerful Dapr Workflow API.

Dec 10, 2024
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December 10, 2024

Dapr 1.15 Deep Dive

Dapr is officially a CNCF graduated project and the Dapr 1.15 release is here.

Aug 26, 2024
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August 26, 2024

Failure is not an option: durable execution + Dapr = 🚀

In this session, see how Dapr Workflow provides durable execution, which enables you to write reliable workflows as code.

Marc Duiker
Nov 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024

Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey

As a polyglot framework and CNCF incubating project since 2021, Dapr provides essential building blocks to abstract dependencies, enabling rapid design and iteration of complex full-stack applications.

Nov 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024

Why Does Continuous Profiling Matter to Developers?

In this presentation, we will look into how developers can benefit from having a clear observability strategy by also adding continuous profiling to the mix.

Mauricio Salatino
Nov 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024

The Power of Apache Pulsar. Harnessing Dapr to Build High Scale Messaging at FICO

Learn about FICO’s experience migrating from Apache Kafka to Apache Pulsar with the help of Dapr to build high scale messaging services into our platform.

Nov 12, 2024
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November 12, 2024

Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity

Learn how FICO leverages Crossplane and Dapr to build Composition pipelines for increased deployment flexibility and velocity.

Nov 20, 2024
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November 20, 2024

Scale Job Triggering with Dapr's Distributed Scheduler

In this session from KubeCon NA 2024 you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of how Dapr’s Scheduler unblocks scalability of actors and workflows while also enabling new capabilities, like delayed pubsub and schedule job API.

Nov 20, 2024
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November 20, 2024

Taming Your Application’s Environments with Dapr, Crossplane, Dagger, ArgoCD and Knative

Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino and Marcos Lilljedahl explore three techniques for leveling up your SDLC using popular open source projects.

John Allwright
Nov 20, 2024
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November 20, 2024

Dapr's Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means - Kubecon Session

Dapr co-creator and maintainer, Diagrid CTO Yaron Schneider, gives a sneak peek into what's coming in the next release.

Yaron Schneider
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Floki: Building Agentic Workflows with Dapr

At Dapr Day 2024, we got a fascinating glimpse into the future of workflow automation. Let's dive into how Floki combines Dapr's workflow capabilities with Large Language Models to create intelligent, autonomous systems.

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Bindings for Event Sourcing and CQRS capabilities in Dapr applications

In a compelling session at Dapr Day 2024, Marc Klefter walks us through an elegant solution for implementing CQRS and event sourcing in Dapr applications.

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Closing Keynote with Joe Beda

As developers, we often focus on code and features. But what makes a platform truly successful? At Dapr Day 2024, Joe Beda shares hard-earned wisdom about platform building that every developer and architect should hear.

Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: The Dapr Actors Journey: From Understanding to Intuition

In an engaging presentation at Dapr Day 2024, Elena Kovaleska from the Diagrid open source team breaks down the complex world of actor systems. Having recently worked on Dapr's actor subsystem, Elena shares her insights to help developers appreciate and implement this powerful pattern.

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey

As developers, we often face the challenge of building reliable, scalable business workflows. At Dapr Day 2024, we got an insider's look at how Dapr tackles these real-world scenarios.

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Dapr and .NET Aspire - A New Era for Observability

Harry's presentation walks through two key scenarios, demonstrating the use of OpenTelemetry in a distributed application environment using both Dapr and .NET Aspire

John Allwright
Oct 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024

ChatLoopBackoff - Episode 32 - Dapr. Join CNCF Ambassador, Marko Mudrinic demo exploring Dapr for the first time!

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is designed to simplify the development of microservices-based distributed applications. It provides building blocks for common microservice capabilities like state management, pub/sub messaging, service invocation, and resource bindings, among others. The core idea behind Dapr is to allow developers to focus on business logic, abstracting away complex infrastructure concerns in distributed systems. Join CNCF Ambassador, Marko Mudrinic demo exploring Dapr for the first time!

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Processing One Million Data Points Daily with Dapr

Siri Varma Vegiraju, Software Engineer at Microsoft talks about his experiences processing massive data throughput at Azure scale working on production workloads for both Microsoft and cloud customers around the globe.

John Allwright
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Dapr & Kubernetes at SharperImage.com - Experiences from the Trenches

Diagrid's Alice Gibbons and Sharperimage.com's Aaron Olds talk about the realities of running Dapr on Kubernetes in production - challenges and solutions.

Alice Gibbons
Oct 23, 2024
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October 23, 2024

Dapr Day: Maintainers' Project Roadmap with Yaron Schneider

Maintainers Roadmap with Yaron Schneider - Dapr co-creator, maintainer & CTO of Diagrid.

Yaron Schneider
Oct 25, 2024
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October 25, 2024

Dapr Day Opening Keynote with Mark Russinovich

In an inspiring keynote at Dapr Day 2024, Microsoft CTO Mark Russinovich took us on a journey through Dapr's evolution and shared an exciting vision for its future.

John Allwright
Oct 18, 2024
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October 18, 2024

Dapr Day - 5 Year Celebration

Join us for Dapr Day to learn all about building microservices with standard building block APIs that work with any language.

Marc Duiker
Oct 9, 2024
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October 9, 2024

Diagrid’s Catalyst simplifies the complexities of building distributed microservices applications

Diagrid is a company focussed on app developers building modern, distributed microservices applications. They recently announced the beta release of Catalyst, a new offering designed to simplify the complexities of building distributed microservices applications.

Mark Fussell
Oct 3, 2024
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October 3, 2024

Unleashing Innovation with Diagrid Catalyst

Get ready for the next chapter in Dapr development

Kendall Roden
Nov 16, 2023
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November 16, 2023

Dapr - Kubecon project update

Dapr - Kubecon project update

Mark Fussell & Yaron Schneider
Jul 26, 2023
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July 26, 2023

Dapr - the ultimate developer API for authoring microservices

Dapr - the ultimate developer API for authoring microservices

Kendall Roden
Apr 14, 2023
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April 14, 2023

With Dapr, Diagrid Aims To Abstract Away The Complexities Of Building Distributed Applications

Building distributed applications can often come with numerous challenges; however, its complexity is often underestimated even though it is something that developers encounter regularly. Dapr aims to tackle these problems, by helping to abstract away some of the complexities for developers so that they can build scalable distributed applications on platforms like Kubernetes quicker and easier.

Mark Fussell & Yaron Schneider
Nov 22, 2023
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November 22, 2023

Diagrid Catalyst Aims To Tackle Code Fragmentation To Boost Developer Productivity | Mark Fussell

In this episode of TFiR: Let’s Talk recorded at KubeCon in Chicago, Diagrid CEO and Co-Founder Mark Fussell talks about the developer experience and some of the challenges developers are facing nowadays. Fussell discusses their latest announcement, Diagrid Catalyst, and how it helps tackling some of these key developer challenges.

Mark Fussell
May 5, 2024
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May 5, 2024

Diagrid Makes It Easy To Run And Manage Dapr

Diagrid is a developer-focused company building solutions, tools and API platform to make developers productive. Kubernetes has become the de-facto standard for how we host and run large-scale applications. Kubernetes itself has challenges; anything users deploy on Kubernetes, including Dapr, has to be managed and run efficiently. Diagrid helps developers and operators run and manage Dapr most efficiently. It’s a classic story of the symbiotic relationship between open source projects like Dapr and commercial vendors like Diagrid.

Mark Fussell & Yaron Schneider
Apr 9, 2024
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April 9, 2024

Diagrid Conductor Free helps developers visualize their Dapr applications

Diagrid Conductor aims to help operations teams manage Dapr in production. The company recently announced a free version of Diagrid Conductor aimed at developers. In this video recorded at KubeCon in Paris, Diagrid CEO and Co-Founder Mark Fussell, discusses how Dapr is helping developers build applications more quickly and how Diagrid’s offerings are helping organizations leverage this technology.

Mark Fussell
Sep 25, 2024
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September 25, 2024

Introducing Diagrid Conductor

Running Dapr on Kubernetes? Put your cluster on autopilot with Diagrid Conductor. Onboard your first cluster in under a minute to deliver operational excellence, increased security, reliability, and insights to your applications.

Alice Gibbons
Sep 26, 2024
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September 26, 2024

"Productionalize" your Dapr-Enabled Applications with Diagrid Conductor Advisor

Generate a report of over 50+ advisories completely tailored to your Kubernetes clusters across any of your prod or pre-prod environments.

Alice Gibbons
Sep 25, 2024
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September 25, 2024

Introducing Diagrid Catalyst

Now in public beta, Diagrid Catalyst provides a set of developer APIs for building microservice apps, powered by Dapr. Stop hacking together fragmented libraries get back to building, with security and reliability out of the box!

Kendall Roden
Jun 27, 2023
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June 27, 2023

Local Development of Cloud-Native Apps with Dapr and Testcontainers

In this video, Diagrid's Mauricio Salatino and AtomicJar's Oleg Šelajev examine how Dapr use a Cloud Native set of API-based interfaces that enable developers to build distributed applications quickly, using Testcontainers to wire up cloud dev & test environments.

John Allwright
Jul 21, 2023
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July 21, 2023

Dapr Service Invocation API: Deep Dive & v1.11 Updates

Join Kendall Roden and Sam Coyle on August 1st for a demo-heavy exploration of Dapr's Service Invocation building block including the latest external service invocation capabilities added in Dapr 1.11.

John Allwright
Jun 26, 2024
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June 26, 2024

Solving the Challenges of Distributed Systems with Dapr and Spring Boot

Dapr is an open-source, cloud-native project designed to decouple application concerns from the underlying infrastructure through convenient APIs, enabling developers to consume several capabilities without extra cognitive load. This webinar will demonstrate the combined power of Dapr and Spring Boot for handling the most common distributed application challenges.

Mauricio Salatino
Jun 26, 2024
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June 26, 2024

Introducing Dapr Component Builder

The Component Builder provides an intuitive, step-by-step interface for configuring Dapr components. By following the guided steps, you can configure your component and have the Component Builder generate the required YAML file. Watch this 2-minute video for a quick overview.

Bilgin Ibryam
Nov 30, 2023
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November 30, 2023

Catalyst Deep Dive, Including Outbox Pattern Demo

Join Alice Gibbons and Bilgin Ibryam for a deeper dive into the capabilities of Diagrid Catalyst and a demo building the outbox pattern using Catalyst's APIs.

John Allwright
Nov 16, 2023
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November 16, 2023

Introduction to Diagrid Catalyst

Join us for a hands-on session to learn about using Diagrid Catalyst to build distributed apps with unified APIs for messaging, data and workflow. In this session, Diagrid product manager Kendall Roden provides an end-to-end overview of how to get started with Catalyst and seamlessly integrate it into your development workflow.

John Allwright
May 13, 2024
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May 13, 2024

Powered by Dapr: Unified APIs for Messaging, Data, and Workflow

Diagrid offers enterprise support, automated ops, and a hosted SaaS service delivering a developer API platform. Powered by Dapr, from the creators of Dapr.

Marc Duiker
Nov 20, 2023
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November 20, 2023

Dapr Makes Kubernetes Accessible to Developers - Video

Diagrid CEO talks and demos Dapr with TheNewStack founder Alex Williams in this video interview.

John Allwright
Apr 12, 2024
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April 12, 2024

Kickstart Your Dapr Development on Kubernetes with Conductor Free

Conductor Free is the easiest way for Dapr developers to visualize, troubleshoot, and optimize their Dapr applications running on Kubernetes. In this webinar, the Diagrid customer success team demonstrates the capabilities available in this no-cost solution, available now!

Alice Gibbons
Mar 19, 2024
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March 19, 2024

Introducing Diagrid Conductor Free

Introducing Diagrid Conductor Free - the easiest way for Dapr developers to visualize, troubleshoot, and optimize their Dapr applications running on Kubernetes. As the name implies, it’s free to use, and developers can sign up and start using the service today.

Alice Gibbons
Mar 5, 2024
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March 5, 2024

Dapr Day 2024: All The Videos

Feb 2024: Hundreds of developers from the Dapr community came together for the first Dapr Day: a virtual event where they shared ideas, real-world stories, and advice. Missed the event live? Now you can catch up with all the session videos.

John Allwright
May 30, 2024
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May 30, 2024

End-to-end Dapr Management in Azure with Diagrid Conductor

In this webinar, Diagrid's Customer Success team will provide a comprehensive overview of how to leverage Dapr's capabilities on Azure by pairing it with Diagrid Conductor, a tool that enables engineers and operation teams to enhance their Dapr development and maintenance

Alice Gibbons
Jan 18, 2024
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January 18, 2024

Build multiplayer Tetris in the browser using Python and Go

What does it take to go from a simple Catalyst API sample to a multi-service, multi-language Catalyst application? In this deep dive webinar, the Diagrid team uses a multiplayer Tetris application to show you how to take advantage of the various Dapr-compatible Catalyst APIs to build event-driven applications.

John Allwright
Sep 2, 2024
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September 2, 2024

Orchestration vs Choreography: re-engineering the AWS Saga pattern sample

In this video, Yaron Schnieder (co-creator of Dapr and KEDA) illustrates different approaches to implementing the saga pattern on AWS; orchestration as in the AWS sample and a choreography approach with code that boost developer productivity.

Kendall Roden
Aug 1, 2024
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August 1, 2024

Celebrating Dapr 1.14!

It's the highlight of the summer: Dapr v1.14 is dropping soon! Join us for a virtual celebration hosted by the co-creators of Dapr and contributors behind game-changing updates.

Zoey Morck
Jul 11, 2024
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July 11, 2024

Comparing Kubernetes & Dapr: Overlaps & Differences

If Kubernetes has service discovery, why would you use Dapr service invocation? If Kubernetes can manage stateful applications, what makes Dapr's state store API necessary? What is the difference between Kubernetes CronJob and Dapr cron? How do the distributed lock implementations in Kubernetes and Dapr compare?

Bilgin Ibryam
Jul 17, 2024
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July 17, 2024

Automate Dapr Best Practices with Conductor Advisor

Diagrid was founded by the creators of the Dapr project, and has an engineering team working full-time on developing Dapr. This extensive involvement provides the team with deep insights into the best practices for effectively developing and operating & we have encapsulated and codified this knowledge as part of Conductor’s Advisor feature and made it free for everyone.

Alice Gibbons
Apr 25, 2024
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April 25, 2024

Catalyst API Deep Dive

An in-depth overview of the Catalyst platform, a demonstration of how to get started, and a review of the Catalyst APIs that make building distributed applications seamless and simple. Diagrid Catalyst is a developer platform for writing durable execution based workflows, pub/sub eventing, and multi-cloud/compute service discovery APIs, among others.

Kendall Roden

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