Diagrid Blog

Bilgin Ibryam I Oct 30 2023

Choreography, or Orchestration, That is the Wrong Question

In microservices, developers often blend choreography and orchestration to meet diverse business needs. This article shows how Dapr provides the flexibility to integrate both, eliminating the need to trade off.

Marc Duiker I Oct 24 2023

Diagrid & Dapr at KubeCon North America 2023

Diagrid is sponsoring two CNCF events during KubeCon + CloudNative North America 2023 in Chicago. On Monday, November 6th, we are sponsoring AppDeveloperCon, a new co-located CNCF event, and from Tuesday November 7th to Thursday November 9th, we are sponsoring the main KubeCon event.

Marc Duiker I Oct 17 2023

Dapr v1.12 Release Highlights

This post highlights some of the major new features and improvements of Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, that provides APIs for communication, state, and workflows.

Mauricio Salatino I Oct 13 2023

Cloud-Native Local Development with Testcontainers and Dapr

In this post, we will cover a set of challenges that cloud-native application developers face when building complex distributed applications and some tools that can alleviate their pain.

Alice Gibbons I Sep 28 2023

Diagrid Conductor revolutionizes product development at Ignition Group

Conductor improves Ignition Group’s developer productivity while increasing product reliability. 

Bilgin Ibryam I Sep 21 2023

Dapr as the Ultimate Microservices Patterns Framework

In the realm of microservices architecture, there exists a vast array of patterns guiding developers. Dapr emerges as the ultimate polyglot framework, adeptly implementing these patterns, ensuring a streamlined and efficient application deployment across diverse platforms.

John Allwright I Aug 15 2023

Diagrid Conductor Achieves SOC 2 Type I Certification: Elevating Data Security and Compliance

Diagrid Conductor has successfully achieved SOC 2 Type I certification - with an unqualified opinion - offering 3rd party industry validation of enterprise security for customers' data.

Marc Duiker I Aug 01 2023

An in-depth guide to Dapr workflow patterns in .NET

After covering Dapr workflow basics in the previous article, let’s take a look at the different application patterns that can be used with Dapr workflow and .NET. The patterns covered in this post are: chaining, fan-out/fan-in, monitor, and external system interaction.

John Allwright I Jul 21 2023

WEBINAR: Dapr Service Invocation API: Deep Dive & v1.11 Updates

Join Kendall Roden and Sam Coyle on August 1st for a demo-heavy exploration of Dapr's Service Invocation building block including the latest external service invocation capabilities added in Dapr 1.11.

Alice Gibbons I Jul 19 2023

Diagrid Conductor is Life Insurance for ZEISS’ Microservice-based Order Fulfilment App

Diagrid Conductor reduces ZEISS’ cost and effort running Dapr applications on Kubernetes while also improving reliability and security.

Bilgin Ibryam I Jul 17 2023

The Emergence of Active APIs

As the cloud evolves, a new breed of APIs emerges, directing the control flow of applications, echoing the influence of Inversion of Control (IoC) of yesteryears. Welcome to the era of active APIs, where the cloud is calling the shots.

Bilgin Ibryam I Jun 29 2023

Practical Portability Principles

Explore application portability from multiple dimensions and discover the importance of standardizing on operational APIs for enhanced observability, and reducing integration coupling with event-driven architecture and abstraction layers like Dapr API.

John Allwright I Jun 27 2023

Local Development of Cloud-Native Apps with Dapr and Testcontainers

In this video, Diagrid's Mauricio Salatino and AtomicJar's Oleg Šelajev examine how Dapr use a Cloud Native set of API-based interfaces that enable developers to build distributed applications quickly, using Testcontainers to wire up cloud dev & test environments.

Marc Duiker I Jun 15 2023

Dapr v1.11 Release Highlights

The Dapr maintainers released a new version of Dapr, the distributed application runtime, this week. This post highlights the major new features and changes for the APIs and components in release 1.11.

Marc Duiker I May 25 2023

Understanding the Dapr Workflow engine & authoring workflows in .NET

In this post, you'll learn about the latest Dapr building block API, Dapr Workflow. You’ll learn how the workflow engine works, and how to author a basic workflow using C#.

Marc Duiker I Apr 25 2023

Creating a Dapr pluggable component for Supabase

In this post, you'll learn how to use the Dapr pluggable component .NET SDK and the Supabase C# library to build a pluggable state store component that uses Supabase tables.

John Allwright I Apr 13 2023

Diagrid Simplifies Dapr Management With Enhancements to Diagrid Conductor

Diagrid, provider of tools and services to build reliable and portable applications using Dapr, today announced updates to Diagrid Conductor, its fully managed service that simplifies Dapr in production.

John Allwright I Mar 28 2023

Running Dapr in Production with Confidence

If you’re running Dapr-enabled applications in production or planning to in the near future, this video shows how you can improve your experience, decrease down-time, reduce infrastructure costs and fix problems before they impact you.

Marc Duiker I Mar 07 2023

Create event-driven applications with Cloudflare Queues and Dapr

In this post, you'll learn how to build a cloud to edge event-driven application with Dapr and Cloudflare Queues.

Marc Duiker I Feb 16 2023

Dapr v1.10 Release Highlights

The Dapr maintainers released a new version of Dapr, the distributed application runtime, this week. This post highlights the major new features and changes in release 1.10, the first one in 2023.

Bilgin Ibryam I Feb 13 2023

The Evolution of Cloud Computing: From Raw Infrastructure to the Serverless Application Cloud

In this post, we are going to describe rough evolutionary stages characterized by major trends in the infrastructure and application architectures and responsibilities.

Bilgin Ibryam I Dec 20 2022

Top Three Use Cases for Dapr and Kubernetes

In this post, we'll explore how Dapr and Kubernetes complement each other.

Bilgin Ibryam I Nov 03 2022

Dapr as a 10x Platform

In this post, we'll explore why Dapr is a 10x runtime that emerged at the right time and what its drawbacks are.

Mark Fussell & Yaron Schneider I Oct 12 2022

Announcing our funding and the launch of Diagrid Conductor

Today we are excited to announce the availability of Diagrid Conductor, a fully managed Dapr on Kubernetes service along with our future plans to simplify and democratize Dapr’s APIs.

Yaron Schneider I Jul 21 2022

The Sidecar Pattern for Application Developers

Last week, a former colleague of mine from my Microsoft days posted the following tweet: Side Cars are more attractive for platform owners, developers prefer libraries.