Introduction
Modern software architectures are increasingly embracing microservices to improve scalability, flexibility, and resilience. However, as the number of systems expands, managing inter-service communication, data persistence, event-driven messaging, and security becomes more complex. Additionally, as a product scales, organizations often inadvertently develop strong dependencies on specific database providers, messaging middleware, or cloud vendors. This tight coupling makes future changes challenging, often requiring extensive refactoring.
Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) offers a unified abstraction for handling these concerns, allowing microservices to interact with databases, message queues, APIs, and secrets stores in a cloud-agnostic and infrastructure-independent manner.