The benefits of distributed applications architectures based on microservices are well established but so are the complexity and challenges that come along with them. Before you write a single line of code that addresses the business needs of your application you have to address numerous critical crossing-cutting concerns. Skip or come up short in any of these areas and you add considerable risk to the success of your application. This is where Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, comes in. Dapr provides a set of building blocks that take care of many common use cases for distributed applications and microservices. Join me in this talk where you'll learn about the benefits of Dapr, how to get started using dapr with .Net, and some of the best ways you can deploy Dapr-powered applications to Azure.

This talk is optimized for .net and azure meetups that follow a 90-minute talk format. There is also a version of this with fewer demos and use cases that fall into a 30 and 60 minutes window.