A 10x Developer Framework for Any Language

We explore the basics of the Dapr project and why it is a 10x developer tool that emerged at the right time, what concrete benefits it brings to developers, operations, and architects, and understand its limitations.

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQs_0Loc5M

Transcript

1. @bibryam
   Bilgin Ibryam
   Product Manager, Diagrid
   A 10x Developer Framework
   for Any Language
   

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2. Bilgin Ibryam
   2
   ● Product Manager at Diagrid
   ● Former Architect at Red Hat
   ● Former Committer at Apache Camel
   ● Blogger and Author
   ○ Camel Design Patterns
   ○ Kubernetes Patterns
   @bibryam https://k8spatterns.io
   

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3. What is a “10x developer”, anyway?
   3
   Someone who is 10 times better
   than the worst developer?
   Someone who made their team or
   company 10 times better?
   Small org Large org
   

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4. Development benefits
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5. Cart
   E-commerce app
   Email Payment
   Inventory
   Checkout
   Frontend
   Notify
   Internet
   State
   Management
   Queue
   Shipping
   Oh no, this
   coordination logic
   requires stateful
   orchestration!
   How do I send
   messages to many
   applications?
   How do
   applications
   discover and call
   each other?
   How to I handle
   failed calls and
   perform retries?
   Developer challenges
   How do I connect to
   external systems?
   

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6. HTTP API gRPC API
   Microservices written in
   Any cloud or edge infrastructure
   Application code
   Any code or framework…
   Microservices written in
   virtual or
   physical machines
   Dapr architecture
   Service-to
   -service
   invocation
   State
   management
   Publish
   and
   subscribe
   Resource
   bindings
   and triggers
   Actors Observability Secrets Configuration Distributed
   Lock
   

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7. 7
   Service invocation
   S2S Features
   ● Pluggable service discovery
   ● End-to-end security with mTLS
   ● Transient failures recovery
   ● Observability with tracing and metrics
   ● Access Control with service identities
   ● Middleware pipeline components
   

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8. 8
   Publish and subscribe
   Pub/Sub features
   ● Broker-agnostic API using Cloud Events
   ● Message routing and filtering
   ● Retries and dead letter topics
   ● Bulk operations (Splitter/Aggregator)
   ● Message Time-to-Live (TTL)
   ● Scoping topics for added security
   

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9. 9
   Output bindings
   Connector features
   ● Keep your code free from libraries
   ● Handle retries and failure recovery
   ● Switch between bindings at runtime
   

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10. 10
    Input bindings
    Connector features
    ● Keep your code free from libraries
    ● Avoid connecting to and polling
    ● Ack, reject, route events
    

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11. Dapr APIs
    API proposals
    ● Document Store (5146)
    ● Offline APIs (4289)
    ● Database API (3354)
    ● Change Data Capture(?)
    

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12. Operational benefits
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13. Cart
    E-commerce app
    Email Payment
    Inventory
    Checkout
    Frontend
    RCM
    D
    Internet
    State
    Management
    Queue
    Shipping
    How do I secure
    access to data
    layer?
    How to trace all calls
    end–to-end?
    How do I rotate certs?
    How to I handle failed
    calls and perform retries?
    Operational challenges
    How can Devs start
    coding locally before
    cloud env is ready?
    How to patch this CVE
    quickly?
    

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14. 14
    Dapr components
    My App
    ● Over 100 components available
    ● Swappable connection configurations
    ● Kubernetes operator, Helm charts
    State
    Stores Firebase Cassandra
    Redis
    Azure
    CosmosDB
    AWS
    DynamoDB
    PubSub
    Brokers Redis
    AW
    S
    SQS
    Azure
    Service Bus
    RabbitMQ
    GCP
    Pub/Sub
    Bindings
    & Triggers GCP
    Storage
    AWS
    S3 Kafka
    Azure
    Storage Twilio
    Secret
    Stores AWS
    Secrets Manager
    Azure
    KeyVault
    GCP
    Secret Manager
    HashiCorp
    Vault
    Kubernetes
    Secret
    Observability
    Prometheus AppInsights Jaeger
    Zipkin
    Configuration
    Distributed
    Lock
    Redis
    Redis
    

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    End-to-end security
    Security features
    ● In-transit encryption mTLS
    ● App to/from sidecar authentication
    ● OAuth2 authentication/authorization
    ● API scoping
    

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16. 16
    End-to-end resiliency
    Resiliency features
    ● Retries, timeouts, circuit breaker
    ● Service invocation, components, actors
    

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17. 17
    End-to-end observability
    Observability features
    ● Logs
    ● Metrics
    ● Distributed tracing
    

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18. Architectural benefits
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19. Cross-team and
    cross-project reuse
    Long-term alignment
    with business goals
    Architectural challenges
    

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    Architectural benefits
    ● Optionality and portability in multiple dimensions:
    ○ Polyglot
    ○ Multi-cloud
    ○ Architecture agnostic: monolith, microservice, function
    ● Simplifies long-term maintainability / upgradability
    ● Non-intrusive and extensible
    ● Open source: part of CNCF since 2021
    Dapr drawbacks
    ● Mental complexity
    ● Additional network latency (1-2ms)
    ● Additional resource overhead
    ● Debugging and testing?
    

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21. 21
    Dapr community momentum
    21k
    GitHub stars
    5.6k
    Discord
    members
    Contributing organizations include:
    +1M
    Docker Hub
    monthly pulls
    2.5k
    Contributors
    +300k
    Unique docs
    views/mo
    +100
    Components
    3 year contributor growth
    10/157
    Largest
    CNCF project
    

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    https://www.diagrid.io/blog/dapr-as-a-10x-platform
    Day 0
    Ensure consistency and
    portability across the
    organization
    Day 2
    Operate distributed
    applications confidently
    Day 1
    Create distributed
    applications faster
    In summary
    

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23. @bibryam
    Thank You
    https://k8spatterns.io
    https://www.diagrid.io
    https://dapr.io
    

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