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Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET

You're reading from   Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET A developer's guide to building cloud-native applications using the event-driven runtime

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248127
Length 312 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Davide Bedin Davide Bedin
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Dapr
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Dapr FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Debugging Dapr Solutions 4. Chapter 3: Microservices Architecture with Dapr 5. Part 2: Building Microservices with Dapr
6. Chapter 4: Service-to-Service Invocation 7. Chapter 5: Introducing State Management 8. Chapter 6: Publish and Subscribe 9. Chapter 7: Resource Bindings 10. Chapter 8: Using Actors 11. Part 3: Deploying and Scaling Dapr Solutions
12. Chapter 9: Deploying to Kubernetes 13. Chapter 10: Exposing Dapr Applications 14. Chapter 11: Tracing Dapr Applications 15. Chapter 12: Load Testing and Scaling Dapr 16. Chapter 13: Leveraging Serverless Containers with Dapr 17. Assessments 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Actors

In this chapter, you will learn about the powerful virtual actor model, as implemented in Dapr, and how to leverage it in a microservices-style architecture, along with the pros and cons of different approaches. The actor model enables your Dapr application to efficiently respond to scenarios of high resource contention by streamlining state management.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • Using actors in Dapr
  • Actor concurrency, consistency, and lifetime
  • Implementing actors in an e-commerce reservation system

The entry barrier for adopting actors in Dapr is lower than the complexity behind the core concepts of the virtual actor pattern. Nonetheless, a solid understanding of the scenarios for actors – including the ability to recognize bad practices and avoid any pitfalls – is a prerequisite for their adoption. Therefore, we will start by providing an overview of the actor model before moving on to its lab implementation...

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