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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET

By : Davide Bedin
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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET

By: Davide Bedin

Overview of this book

Over the last decade, there has been a huge shift from heavily coded monolithic applications to finer, self-contained microservices. Dapr is a new, open source project by Microsoft that provides proven techniques and best practices for developing modern applications. It offers platform-agnostic features for running your applications on public cloud, on-premises, and even on edge devices. This book will help you get to grips with microservice architectures and how to manage application complexities with Dapr in no time. You'll understand how Dapr offers ease of implementation while allowing you to work with multiple languages and platforms. You'll also understand how Dapr's runtime, services, building blocks, and software development kits (SDKs) help you to simplify the creation of resilient and portable microservices. Dapr provides an event-driven runtime that supports the essential features you need to build microservices, including service invocation, state management, and publish/subscribe messaging. You'll explore all of those in addition to various other advanced features with this practical guide to learning Dapr. By the end of this book, you'll be able to write microservices easily using your choice of language or framework by implementing industry best practices to solve problems related to distributed systems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Dapr
4
Section 2: Building Microservices with Dapr
10
Section 3: Deploying and Scaling Dapr Solutions

Azure Cosmos DB as a state store

Instead of using the local Redis storage, we are going to leverage another Dapr state store option, Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, multi-model database service.

The steps needed to associate the new state store are as follows:

  1. Setting up Azure Cosmos DB
  2. Configuring the state store
  3. Testing the state store
  4. Partitioning with Cosmos DB
  5. Wrapping up

The application code of reservation-store will not be changed; we will only operate at the configuration level of the state store component.

We'll start by setting up the Azure Cosmos DB resource.

Setting up Azure Cosmos DB

To create a Cosmos DB instance on Azure, please follow this guide in the Azure documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-manage-database-account.

You should also take a look at the Dapr documentation for the same purpose: https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks/state-management/query...