Posts tagged with "Dapr"

Decouple yourself from your LLM commodities using Dapr Conversation

Sep 24, 2025

As developers, we often find ourselves tied to specific providers. The same applies to Large Language Model (LLM) providers. This can limit our flexibility and control over our applications. In this blog post, we'll explore how to decouple ourselves from LLM commodities by leveraging Dapr's Conversation building block. This approach allows us to switch between different LLM providers seamlessly, ensuring that our applications remain adaptable and future-proof.

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Debugging Dapr applications with Rider or Visual Studio: A better way

Dapr is an impressive set of APIs for building distributed applications with any language and platform. It provides a set of building blocks that you can use to build microservices. Dapr is based on sidecar architecture. Meaning that you need to run a Dapr sidecar for each of your applications. How do you debug your Dapr apps effectively? If you have been using PowerShell scripts to run and attach your debugger, you know how tedious and error-prone it can be. Ready to see how to use Rider or Visual Studio to debug your Dapr apps with ease and confidence?

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Dapr binding building block by simple example

Oct 19, 2021

Till now, we have seen two Dapr building blocks which are the service to service invocation building block and the secrets building block. The secret building block serves to protect things like a database connection string, an API key... so that they're never disclosed outside of the application. The service to service invocation building block serves to make calls between services in your distributed application easy. In this post, we will introduce a third one which is the bindings building block. The bindings building block enables your distributed application to handle external events or invoke external services.

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Accessing Dapr secrets building block using Dapr .NET SDK

Apr 6, 2021

In all previous posts, we were looking at the Dapr service invocation building block. We have seen how to expose and call HTTP and gRPC services using it. In this post, we will see how Dapr ease developers life when it comes to deal with secrets, thanks to the secrets management building block.

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