Dapr offers a comprehensive solution for developing edge and cloud-native applications, enabling developers to save time and focus on innovation.”
Looking forward, the Dapr community aims to introduce an alpha version of a conversational AI API in the next release, facilitating the integration of LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and others né?. The project now boasts tens of thousands of users, including Grafana, HDFC Bank, and Vonage. The project has excelled in assisting application developers in maneuvering through the complexities of cloud-native architectures, and the interaction with the CNCF community has played a pivotal role in the project’s growth and maturity.”
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When Dapr was initially launched in late 2019, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich noted the necessity for a project that could consolidate the emerging patterns related to distributed microservice-based applications into a unified runtime, thus liberating developers from the need to reinvent these patterns.
Loong Dai, a Dapr maintainer, Steering Committee member, and cloud engineer at Intel, added, “In a time where traffic is crucial, Dapr has revolutionized distributed application development by enabling developers to concentrate on business logic, thereby significantly boosting development efficiency. As a core maintainer, I am pleased to observe numerous FaaS frameworks and products leveraging Dapr as their runtime.”
Accepted into the CNCF’s incubator in late 2021, Dapr has garnered support from over 3,700 individual contributors representing more than 400 organizations, according to CNCF. CNCF expressed, “The Dapr project is committed to continuous innovation and providing standardized software patterns for developers constructing distributed applications.”. Overall, Dapr’s SDK has been downloaded over 70 million times.
Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF, emphasized, “In today’s competitive landscape, it is paramount for organizations to deliver reliable and scalable applications swiftly. Dapr the open source runtime developed by Microsoft to assist developers in creating secure and resilient distributed applications has successfully moved up the ranks within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to become a top-level project joining the likes of Kubernetes Prometheus Istio and Vitess.
In order to achieve this status a project must demonstrate stability have well-defined documentation active maintainers and most importantly gain significant traction in the market.
Yaron Schneider a Dapr maintainer and Steering Committee member as well as the CTO and co-founder of Diagrid a startup that is commercializing Dapr stated “Dapr has a clear mission: to address the evolving needs of developers and tackle the most intricate challenges in distributed computing né?
