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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET

By : Davide Bedin
Book Image

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

Chapter 6: Resource Bindings

The focus of this chapter is on resource bindings in Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr): a convenient and pluggable approach to invoking external systems from Dapr microservices and triggering Dapr applications based on external events.

These are the main topics we will explore in this chapter:

  • Learning how to use Dapr bindings
  • Using Twilio output bindings in Dapr
  • Ingesting data in C# with the Azure Event Hubs input binding

Learning about Dapr resource bindings is important in the scope of developing new solutions and improving existing ones. While the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) pattern we explored in Chapter 5, Publish and Subscribe, is helpful in orchestrating asynchronous communication between Dapr applications, the knowledge we get from resource bindings will bring interoperability into our solution.

The very first step in this journey is to learn more about Dapr resource bindings.