Building, deploying, and owning a single web application can be a challenge. Working with microservices only compounds all of your problems. With the game-changing combination of DAPR and Azure Container Apps, we can fortunately remove most of the pains associated with microservices.

This workshop is divided into two parts:

1. What is DAPR and how it helps microservices development
• What is DAPR?
• Using DAPR Building Blocks for microservice state persistence
• Using DAPR Building Blocks for sync and async communication between microservices
• Building and debugging microservices locally

2. How to run DAPR in Production with Azure Container Apps
• Provision Infrastructure with Azure Bicep
• Containerizing microservices with GitHub Actions
• Deploying microservices with GitHub Actions
• Implementing Observability

This workshop is suitable for Software Engineers experienced in almost any language (.NET, Python, Java, Go, Ruby etc.) as well as Platform Engineers. All you need is a basic knowledge of Microservice Development, a computer, and desire to lift your microservices development game!

Equipment and software requirements:
• A computer - either Windows PC, macOS, or Linux
• Visual Studio 2022 or VS Code or JetBrains Rider
• .NET 8 or higher
• Docker Desktop
• REST client (Postman, Insomnia, etc.)
• GitHub account
• Azure Subscription