Summary

In this chapter, you learned about Dapr, the different building blocks such as service-to-service invocation, state management, and pub/sub, and how you can use them in your ASP.NET Core apps and services. Then, you learned about customizing the state management building block data storage component. Finally, you created a container app on Azure Container Apps and enabled support for Dapr in Azure Container Apps.

Dapr is essential for modern application development as it abstracts the complexities of distributed systems, enabling us to focus on business logic. It offers a language-agnostic, event-driven architecture with built-in resilience, state management, and interoperability while fostering loose coupling and scalability. By incorporating Dapr, we can expedite development, ensure best practices, and navigate the challenges of distributed architectures with greater efficiency and simplicity.

In the next chapter, you will learn about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)...