This Online TechTalk “Your application is going to stay more serverless by using DAPR and Azure Functions together” was delivered by Sergii Bielskyi on April 27, 2021 During the event, the speaker shared his experience in using DAPR as the main component in the creation of serverless apps. Also, he demonstrated cases about building DAPR blocks and performed live-demo usage of the DAPR extension for Azure Function. More details and video: https://bit.ly/3kKqhlb

1. Dapr
Sergii Bielskyi
Head of R&D at Eleks

2. About me
Current
Head of R&D at Eleks
Previous
Cloud Solution Architect at Qiio
Solution Architect E-doc at APU
Technical Consultant MCS at MS Ukraine
MVP, Lead of SharePoint and IoT communities
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/iot.ua/
Twitter @sergey_belskiy
Blog https://medium.com/@sergiibielskyi
Social

3. Before starting
Different parts across application
- Services
- Systems
- Solutions
- Databases
Different approaches
– Serverless
- Stateless
- Distributed
- Languages

4. A little bit of history
DAPR
distributed application portable or platform runtime
shared or spread out
works on application layer,
not network
integrate different systems
“Plumbing” run on all devices

6. Darp itself
Dapr v1.0
https://docs.dapr.io

7. Sidecar architecture

8. Hosting environments

9. Dapr performance

10. Dapr
roadmap
Developer and operator productivity tooling:
• – VS Code extension.
• – Remote Dev Containers for local debugging a
DevOps pipeline development.
• – Dapr operational dashboard enhancements that
will provide deeper visibility into the operational
concerns of managing Dapr applications.
• New languages
RUST and C++
• Integration with frameworks and cloud native
technologies. Some examples include:
• – Django
• – Nodejs
• – Express
• – Kyma
• – Midway

11. Dapr in IoT practies
• IoT edge
• SQL database
• Blob Storage
• Azure Functions
• Machine Learning
• AKS

12. Resources
• https://dapr.io/ Dapr site
• Free book https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/dotnet/architecture/dapr-for-net-developers/?WT.mc_id=-blog-
scottha
• https://github.com/dapr Dapr github

13. Let’s get started

14. Simple case

15. DEMO
Notes
• Making a new Azure function via VS Code
• Including Dapr extention
• Building several state management blocks using Redis and Cosmos DB
• Building security blocks using Azure Key Vault
• Testing
• Debuging