Make microservices agnostic
Distributed Application Runtime, or Dapr, was created at Microsoft in 2019 and later added to CNCF as an incubating project in 2021. The project aims to deliver foundational building blocks for microservices development to enable developers to focus on the business logic for a microservice without having to worry about other areas in the microservices landscape, including service discovery and state management.
Think of the building blocks, shown in Figure 1, as standard HTTP and gRPC APIs that Dapr exposes for common capabilities like service invocation, state management, and publish and subscribe messaging.
To solve crosscutting concerns for their apps, developers can make an HTTP and gRPC API call to a Dapr building block. For example, to use Dapr to store state for microservices, use an HTTP POST call to the endpoint http://localhost:/v1.0/statestore with the payload.
Building blocks are blueprints, or interfaces, for the API. The actual implementations are called components. Think of a Dapr component as the code that implements the standard API for a building block with infrastructure components, such as Redis for state management.
