Building microservices the easy way with Dapr

Dapr is a CNCF graduated project that simplifies microservices development by providing a sidecar runtime that handles distributed system concerns like messaging, pub-sub, service communication, storage, and secrets management. Built with observability in mind, Dapr automatically propagates traces and metrics across asynchronous and synchronous systems without requiring manual instrumentation. Recent additions include workflow orchestration, AI/LLM integration through a Conversation API, and Dapr Agents for durable autonomous workflows. The project was open source from inception, joined CNCF as an incubating project in 2021, and graduated in October 2024 with thousands of contributors from hundreds of organizations.