Stephen Downes

Distributed Application Runtime (dapr) is an open source set of APIs for cloud-native applications. It was created by Microsoft and is now run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The idea is that dapr runs as 'sidecars' alongside your application or service. When you want to do something in the cloud (publish, subscribe, access secrets) you communicate with your sidecar, which contacts whatever service is configured. There's a lot of similarities between this and n8n, which is another system for connecting distributed applications. View the Concepts section to get the basic idea, or view the slideshows for a more visual presentation. Dapr directly addresses a bunch of issues I ran into while developing CList last year.  Via Simardeep Singh.