From the course: Complete Guide to Dapr for .NET and Azure Developers: Building and Managing Microservices

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What is Dapr?

What is Dapr?

From the course: Complete Guide to Dapr for .NET and Azure Developers: Building and Managing Microservices

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What is Dapr?

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- [Instructor] Let's now define what exactly Dapr is. Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for any developer to build resilient, stateless and stateful applications that are run on the cloud and edge. Its official site is dapr.io. Here, we can find plenty of information related to the different features and functionalities that Dapr offers. Although it's a project that stemmed from Microsoft, nowadays, Dapr is part of the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation. This foundation incubates many open source projects for software development and cloud technologies. Dapr offers us several valuable features, starting with a number of building blocks that we can use to add functionality to our applications quickly. Also, Dapr is consistent and portable. Actually, if we learn to use a couple of building blocks, we practically know all its remaining concepts. It's also extensible. If there wasn't a particular component we needed, we could build it too. On the other hand, we…

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