Simple play icon Course
Skills Expanded

Dapr 1 Fundamentals

by Mark Heath

This course will teach you how to use Dapr building blocks to simplify and enhance the experience of building Microservices.

What you'll learn

Dapr has the potential to greatly accelerate and simplify the process of developing Microservices. In this course, Dapr 1 Fundamentals, you’ll learn how to use the Dapr building blocks in a Microservices application, and configure Dapr on a Kubernetes cluster. First, you’ll explore how Dapr’s service invocation and pub sub building blocks enable synchronous and asynchronous communication between Microservices. Next, you’ll discover how Dapr can simplify the task of interacting with other services using Dapr building blocks for state management, bindings and secrets. Finally, you’ll learn how Dapr’s observability features can help you monitor what’s going on in production.. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Dapr needed to incorporate it into an existing Microservices application, or to use it for a brand new Microservices architecture.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min

About the author

Mark Heath is a software developer based in Southampton, England, working for NICE Systems as a software architect creating cloud based digital evidence management systems for the police. He is the creator of NAudio, an open source audio framework for .NET. He is passionate about continually improving his skills and training other developers, and in recent years has been particularly focused on the challenges of creating scalable and reliable Azure-deployed systems. In his (very limited) spare t... more

Ready to upskill? Get started