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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Developing ASP.NET Core Microservices with Dapr: A practical guide

Marc Müller

Tired of microservice infrastructure boilerplate slowing you down? Learn how Dapr offloads distributed system complexity in ASP.NET Core so you can focus strictly on business logic.

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#1 about 2 min

Reviewing the fast food microservices demo application

A practical sample application illustrates the complexity of decoupling, event communication, and scaling.

#2 about 3 min

Challenges of building cloud native microservices applications

Scaling applications introduces complexity around resilient communication, state handling, and decoupled events.

#3 about 2 min

Introducing Dapr as an event-driven application runtime

Dapr simplifies application development by providing standardized APIs for distributed system challenges.

#4 about 4 min

Understanding Dapr building blocks and sidecar architecture

The decentralized sidecar pattern runs adjacent to services to handle underlying infrastructure integrations.

#5 about 3 min

Implementing state management using simple Dapr APIs

Offloading infrastructure concerns allows developers to manage state across configurable storage providers.

#6 about 2 min

Gaining security and observability features for free

Routing traffic through a local sidecar automatically adds metrics, tracing, and network resiliency.

#7 about 2 min

Hosting Dapr sidecars in scalable Kubernetes infrastructure

Integrating the Dapr injector automates sidecar placement within application pods over internal localhost interfaces.

#8 about 3 min

Exploring execution environments and supported language SDKs

Flexible hosting allows Dapr usage locally, in containers, or within managed cloud platform offerings.

#9 about 3 min

Configuring local Dapr services using Docker Compose

Injecting the Dapr client locally matches the experience of cloud deployments via basic container configuration.

#10 about 2 min

Defining components iteratively through Kubernetes YAML manifests

Declarative component schemas seamlessly map local messaging brokers to enterprise cloud equivalents without code updates.

#11 about 2 min

Securing service invocation with zero-trust networking access

Encrypted mTLS tunnels securely route inter-service remote procedure calls through defined access policies.

#12 about 3 min

Structuring durable publish-subscribe messaging over cloud events

Relying on standardized HTTP endpoints handles retries, topic mapping, and dead letter queue routing.

#13 about 2 min

Implementing the distributed virtual actor pattern in .NET

Caching scalable actor models maintains rapid logical progression without complicating shared remote state coordination.

#14 about 2 min

Weighing productivity benefits against generic framework limitations

While Dapr accelerates foundational patterns, its abstract architecture may obscure vendor-specific messaging optimizations.

Matching moments

11:32 min

Building reliable microservices with the Dapr open source project

Chris Heilmann +2 · LIVE

7:01 min

Implementing Dapr sidecars for service-to-service communication

Ryan Niño Dizon · LIVE

3:16 min

Dapr architecture and abstraction component building blocks

marcklefter marcklefter · WWC 2024

2:05 min

Integrating Dapr implementations as a Kubernetes sidecar

marcklefter marcklefter · WWC 2024

2:52 min

Introduction to ASP.NET Core and the ABP framework

Alper Ebicoglu Alper Ebicoglu · WWC 2025

3:11 min

Running microservices on Azure Container Apps

Matthias Falkenberg +1 · WWC 2022

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