Mark Fussell
@mfussell.bsky.social
Diagrid co-Founder / CEO
Dapr co-Founder http://github.com/dapr/ and Ex-Microsoft
Dapr co-Founder http://github.com/dapr/ and Ex-Microsoft
Java has been a top SDK for #daprdev since day 0.
@salaboy and the community has taken this to the next level with SpringBoot and Quarkus integration along with TestContainers for local development. This short video tells your everything you need to know 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmx...
@salaboy and the community has taken this to the next level with SpringBoot and Quarkus integration along with TestContainers for local development. This short video tells your everything you need to know 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmx...
Dapr for Spring Boot & Quarkus
YouTube video by Diagrid
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Java has been a top SDK for #daprdev since day 0.
@salaboy and the community has taken this to the next level with SpringBoot and Quarkus integration along with TestContainers for local development. This short video tells your everything you need to know 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmx...
@salaboy and the community has taken this to the next level with SpringBoot and Quarkus integration along with TestContainers for local development. This short video tells your everything you need to know 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSmx...
Incredibly excited that Dapr v1.16 is now available!
Getting started with Dapr is easy with Dapr university courses that you can try out here 👉 diagrid.io/dapr-univers...
A huge "Thank you" to the entire Dapr community and the hundreds of contributors who helped with this release 🙏
Getting started with Dapr is easy with Dapr university courses that you can try out here 👉 diagrid.io/dapr-univers...
A huge "Thank you" to the entire Dapr community and the hundreds of contributors who helped with this release 🙏
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Incredibly excited that Dapr v1.16 is now available!
Getting started with Dapr is easy with Dapr university courses that you can try out here 👉 diagrid.io/dapr-univers...
A huge "Thank you" to the entire Dapr community and the hundreds of contributors who helped with this release 🙏
Getting started with Dapr is easy with Dapr university courses that you can try out here 👉 diagrid.io/dapr-univers...
A huge "Thank you" to the entire Dapr community and the hundreds of contributors who helped with this release 🙏
Reposted by Mark Fussell
James Fefes, Sr Staff Software Engineer at Recharge, shares why they chose Dapr and how it has benefited Recharge. Their services are Dapr enabled by default, since they've included Dapr in their project templates 🚀. Watch the interview on YouTube: youtu.be/UPyMxJ5mIcQ
#CNCF #GCP
#CNCF #GCP
5 questions for James Fefes
James Fefes is a Sr Staff Software Engineer at Recharge. We asked him 5 questions about Dapr.https://getrecharge.com/0:00 Intro0:09 What do you like best abo...
youtu.be
June 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
James Fefes, Sr Staff Software Engineer at Recharge, shares why they chose Dapr and how it has benefited Recharge. Their services are Dapr enabled by default, since they've included Dapr in their project templates 🚀. Watch the interview on YouTube: youtu.be/UPyMxJ5mIcQ
#CNCF #GCP
#CNCF #GCP
Greatly enjoyed being on the Modern .NET Show podcast with Jamie to chat about my journey at Microsoft, the emergence and need #Dapr for developers, and the future of agentic applications. You can listen here👇
dotnetcore.show/season-7/dap...
dotnetcore.show/season-7/dap...
S07E21 - Dapr: The Secret Sauce to Simplifying Distributed Applications with Mark Fussell
Let's connect with Mark, the CEO of Diagrid and a long-time Microsoft veteran, to explore Dapr, a cloud-native solution that simplifies microservices development with consistent APIs for distributed s...
dotnetcore.show
June 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Greatly enjoyed being on the Modern .NET Show podcast with Jamie to chat about my journey at Microsoft, the emergence and need #Dapr for developers, and the future of agentic applications. You can listen here👇
dotnetcore.show/season-7/dap...
dotnetcore.show/season-7/dap...
Amazon published this in-depth post on deploying Dapr to EKS aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
A great next step after this is to deploy Diagrid Conductor for free www.diagrid.io/conductor and not only have a more informative dashboard, but an operations console to manage Dapr
A great next step after this is to deploy Diagrid Conductor for free www.diagrid.io/conductor and not only have a more informative dashboard, but an operations console to manage Dapr
Accelerate Microservices Development with DAPR and Amazon EKS | Amazon Web Services
Microservices and containers are revolutionizing how modern applications are built, deployed, and managed in the cloud. However, developing and operating microservices can introduce significant comple...
aws.amazon.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Amazon published this in-depth post on deploying Dapr to EKS aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
A great next step after this is to deploy Diagrid Conductor for free www.diagrid.io/conductor and not only have a more informative dashboard, but an operations console to manage Dapr
A great next step after this is to deploy Diagrid Conductor for free www.diagrid.io/conductor and not only have a more informative dashboard, but an operations console to manage Dapr
Dapr workflows have gained rapid adoption for long running durable execution, but how can you get started quickly?
🚨 I am excited to announce that today we released Diagrid Workflow Composer workflows.diagrid.io to create running workflow code in seconds from *any* workflow diagram. Give it a try👇
🚨 I am excited to announce that today we released Diagrid Workflow Composer workflows.diagrid.io to create running workflow code in seconds from *any* workflow diagram. Give it a try👇
Diagrid Workflows - Generate durable apps code from diagrams Diagrid
Upload your diagram and get code generated in your favorite language
workflows.diagrid.io
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Dapr workflows have gained rapid adoption for long running durable execution, but how can you get started quickly?
🚨 I am excited to announce that today we released Diagrid Workflow Composer workflows.diagrid.io to create running workflow code in seconds from *any* workflow diagram. Give it a try👇
🚨 I am excited to announce that today we released Diagrid Workflow Composer workflows.diagrid.io to create running workflow code in seconds from *any* workflow diagram. Give it a try👇
We have a very exciting community call tomorrow with the Dapr Workflow Composer. You will not want to miss this one... 😲
Join us tomorrow at 9am PST / 18:00 CEST for another Dapr Community Call!🧑💻🎥
- Microcks + Dapr
- Dapr Workflow Composer (generate workflows from diagrams)
- Community show and tell
Live stream: youtube.com/live/pbla9Ij...
- Microcks + Dapr
- Dapr Workflow Composer (generate workflows from diagrams)
- Community show and tell
Live stream: youtube.com/live/pbla9Ij...
Dapr Community Call - May 14th 2025 - Microcks | Workflow Composer
Join the community call on May 14th! 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/...
youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We have a very exciting community call tomorrow with the Dapr Workflow Composer. You will not want to miss this one... 😲
Going to be at MS Build next week? Come and join us to write sling code building Dapr AI Agents, get free food and drinks, as well as some great tech conversations.
A dev walks into a bar… and builds with Dapr.
Join us May 20 in Seattle for a hands-on hackathon with Dapr Agents, Workflows, and pub/sub.
No badge needed, just curiosity.
🍻
Join us May 20 in Seattle for a hands-on hackathon with Dapr Agents, Workflows, and pub/sub.
No badge needed, just curiosity.
🍻
Dapr Pub Hackathon @ Microsoft Build
Join the Dapr team for this hands-on workshop during Microsoft Build! We're showcasing Dapr Workflows & Dpar Agents and want to see what you'll build!
buff.ly
May 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Going to be at MS Build next week? Come and join us to write sling code building Dapr AI Agents, get free food and drinks, as well as some great tech conversations.
The Dapr university courses are the best way to learn Dapr with their interactive developer experience. We have now published this Dapr workflow course, which covers everything you need to know, going into all the different types of workflow patterns. Try it out👇
Dapr University has a new course: Dapr Workflow
Learn how to build reliable distributed applications with durable execution in this self-paced .NET course (more languages coming soon!).
buff.ly/fjJdRE2
Learn how to build reliable distributed applications with durable execution in this self-paced .NET course (more languages coming soon!).
buff.ly/fjJdRE2
May 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Dapr university courses are the best way to learn Dapr with their interactive developer experience. We have now published this Dapr workflow course, which covers everything you need to know, going into all the different types of workflow patterns. Try it out👇
Over the past year, I’ve seen a major shift: platform engineering teams are taking a bigger role in how applications are built. In this article, I share three areas that I believe define successful platform engineering in 2025.
Would love to hear your thoughts?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-key-...
Would love to hear your thoughts?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-key-...
April 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Over the past year, I’ve seen a major shift: platform engineering teams are taking a bigger role in how applications are built. In this article, I share three areas that I believe define successful platform engineering in 2025.
Would love to hear your thoughts?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-key-...
Would love to hear your thoughts?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-key-...
Seeing Dapr emerge into the Trial phase in the latest Thoughtworks tech radar is tremendous validation of its adoption. The focus on cross cutting concerns including security, retry policies and observability is interesting, as this is a strong ask among Dapr users to enforce compliance.
Thoughtworks Radar: "Dapr has evolved considerably since we last featured it in the Radar. ... All in all, we've been happy with Dapr and are looking forward to future developments." Read the full Radar report: www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platfo...
Dapr | Technology Radar | Thoughtworks
Dapr has evolved considerably since we last featured it in the Radar. Its many new features include job scheduling, virtual actors as well as more [...]
www.thoughtworks.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Seeing Dapr emerge into the Trial phase in the latest Thoughtworks tech radar is tremendous validation of its adoption. The focus on cross cutting concerns including security, retry policies and observability is interesting, as this is a strong ask among Dapr users to enforce compliance.
I caught up with Beth to chat about Dapr Agents and building agentic systems lnkd.in/e6tnpCEc and for deeper dive check out these articles
- www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...
- blog.openthreatresearch.com/floki-buildi...
- www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...
- blog.openthreatresearch.com/floki-buildi...
March 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I caught up with Beth to chat about Dapr Agents and building agentic systems lnkd.in/e6tnpCEc and for deeper dive check out these articles
- www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...
- blog.openthreatresearch.com/floki-buildi...
- www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...
- blog.openthreatresearch.com/floki-buildi...
Join me tomorrow along with @marcduiker.dev
as we dive into and tell a bunch stories with insights into
@daprdev.bsky.social development
as we dive into and tell a bunch stories with insights into
@daprdev.bsky.social development
Are you tracking the latest developments in distributed application development?
Join us tomorrow for our "State of Dapr" report webinar. We will share the results of a survey of 200+ Dapr practitioners and discuss the future of the Dapr project.
buff.ly/cp2eGEp
Join us tomorrow for our "State of Dapr" report webinar. We will share the results of a survey of 200+ Dapr practitioners and discuss the future of the Dapr project.
buff.ly/cp2eGEp
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Join me tomorrow along with @marcduiker.dev
as we dive into and tell a bunch stories with insights into
@daprdev.bsky.social development
as we dive into and tell a bunch stories with insights into
@daprdev.bsky.social development
Given the recent announcement of Dapr Agents
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03... you really should not miss this Dapr community call tomorrow 👇with Yaron and Roberto where they will do a deep dive and discuss all things agentic!
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03... you really should not miss this Dapr community call tomorrow 👇with Yaron and Roberto where they will do a deep dive and discuss all things agentic!
March 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Given the recent announcement of Dapr Agents
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03... you really should not miss this Dapr community call tomorrow 👇with Yaron and Roberto where they will do a deep dive and discuss all things agentic!
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03... you really should not miss this Dapr community call tomorrow 👇with Yaron and Roberto where they will do a deep dive and discuss all things agentic!
Excited to announce Dapr AI Agents a framework built on Dapr APIs and runtime that combines stateful workflow coordination with advanced Agentic AI features. You can read all the details here 👇
linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
and more on TechCrunch 👇
techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/d...
linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
and more on TechCrunch 👇
techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/d...
Dapr's microservices runtime now supports AI agents | TechCrunch
Back in 2019, Microsoft open sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was
techcrunch.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Excited to announce Dapr AI Agents a framework built on Dapr APIs and runtime that combines stateful workflow coordination with advanced Agentic AI features. You can read all the details here 👇
linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
and more on TechCrunch 👇
techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/d...
linkedin.com/pulse/announ...
and more on TechCrunch 👇
techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/d...
Reposted by Mark Fussell
Dapr is being rapidly adopted by Platform Engineering teams as a core technology to ship IDP features faster.
With the addition of K0rdent—an OSS project from Mirantis—platform engineers have a powerful, Kubernetes-native environment for managing applications across infrastructures.
With the addition of K0rdent—an OSS project from Mirantis—platform engineers have a powerful, Kubernetes-native environment for managing applications across infrastructures.
k0rdent and Dapr help Platform Engineers Deliver Modern IDPs | Diagrid Blog
New open-source project k0rdent makes it easier to create custom Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Dapr
diagrid.ws
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dapr is being rapidly adopted by Platform Engineering teams as a core technology to ship IDP features faster.
With the addition of K0rdent—an OSS project from Mirantis—platform engineers have a powerful, Kubernetes-native environment for managing applications across infrastructures.
With the addition of K0rdent—an OSS project from Mirantis—platform engineers have a powerful, Kubernetes-native environment for managing applications across infrastructures.
Dapr continues to be widely used across many different Kubernetes deployments and Diagrid is proud to partner with MirantisIT to provide support for Dapr on k0rdent which simplifies multi-cluster management and enforces compliance for enterprises. You can read more👇 www.diagrid.io/blog/k0rdent...
k0rdent and Dapr help Platform Engineers Deliver Modern IDPs | Diagrid Blog
New open-source project k0rdent makes it easier to create custom Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Dapr
www.diagrid.io
February 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Dapr continues to be widely used across many different Kubernetes deployments and Diagrid is proud to partner with MirantisIT to provide support for Dapr on k0rdent which simplifies multi-cluster management and enforces compliance for enterprises. You can read more👇 www.diagrid.io/blog/k0rdent...
If you are new to Dapr and want to get started learning the most commonly used APIs we see development teams using today, this Dapr University course covers everything you need👇
Dapr University just dropped! In our first course, #Dapr 101, you'll learn about local dev setup with the Dapr CLI and run Dapr apps to explore the three most popular APIs: State Management, Service Invocation and Pub/Sub.
Try this free, browser-based course now at https://bit.ly/3Es9BMS
Try this free, browser-based course now at https://bit.ly/3Es9BMS
February 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If you are new to Dapr and want to get started learning the most commonly used APIs we see development teams using today, this Dapr University course covers everything you need👇
At KubeCon NA I had the chance to sit down with
www.emilyomier.com and talk about what it takes to build a company based on open source, the challenges & opportunities and how the @daprdev.bsky.social project graduated at CNCF. Listen here👇
thebusinessofopensource.transistor.fm/episodes/kub...
www.emilyomier.com and talk about what it takes to build a company based on open source, the challenges & opportunities and how the @daprdev.bsky.social project graduated at CNCF. Listen here👇
thebusinessofopensource.transistor.fm/episodes/kub...
The Business of Open Source | KubeCon NA Special Episode: The Connection Between Community Engagement and Revenue with Mark Fussell
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Mark Fussell, CEO and co-founder of Diagrid and co-creator of Dapr, in a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City. We ...
thebusinessofopensource.transistor.fm
December 4, 2024 at 2:35 AM
At KubeCon NA I had the chance to sit down with
www.emilyomier.com and talk about what it takes to build a company based on open source, the challenges & opportunities and how the @daprdev.bsky.social project graduated at CNCF. Listen here👇
thebusinessofopensource.transistor.fm/episodes/kub...
www.emilyomier.com and talk about what it takes to build a company based on open source, the challenges & opportunities and how the @daprdev.bsky.social project graduated at CNCF. Listen here👇
thebusinessofopensource.transistor.fm/episodes/kub...
Reposted by Mark Fussell
Join the #Dapr v1.15 celebration event (part of Diagrid Launch Week) on Tuesday Dec 10th! 🎉 Topics include: Workflow API, Jobs API, streaming subscriptions, and the brand new Conversation API! Register at
Q4 2024 Launch Week
Are you looking to build modern apps powered by open-source tech?
diagrid.ws
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Join the #Dapr v1.15 celebration event (part of Diagrid Launch Week) on Tuesday Dec 10th! 🎉 Topics include: Workflow API, Jobs API, streaming subscriptions, and the brand new Conversation API! Register at
Proud that Dapr has been included as a finalist in the Software development: Tools category from @InfoWorld
foundryco.com/news/foundry...
#dapr
foundryco.com/news/foundry...
#dapr
Foundry announces the 2024 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award finalists • Foundry
The InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards recognize the most innovative products in software development, devops, cloud computing, data management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
foundryco.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Proud that Dapr has been included as a finalist in the Software development: Tools category from @InfoWorld
foundryco.com/news/foundry...
#dapr
foundryco.com/news/foundry...
#dapr
These three articles on Dapr @daprdev.bsky.social graduation particular resonated with me.
Computer weekly on Kubecon www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-So...
TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/d...
CloudNativeNow cloudnativenow.com/features/cnc...
Computer weekly on Kubecon www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-So...
TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/d...
CloudNativeNow cloudnativenow.com/features/cnc...
November 17, 2024 at 11:15 PM
These three articles on Dapr @daprdev.bsky.social graduation particular resonated with me.
Computer weekly on Kubecon www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-So...
TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/d...
CloudNativeNow cloudnativenow.com/features/cnc...
Computer weekly on Kubecon www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-So...
TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/d...
CloudNativeNow cloudnativenow.com/features/cnc...
Had the most incredible #kubecon. Kicked off with #appdevelopercon, had the amazing @diagridio team on our booth, spoke at #cloudnativestartupfest and best of all #dapr graduation, indicating the project maturity, which we celebrated with a great party 🎉
See you at #kubeconEU London 🙏
See you at #kubeconEU London 🙏
November 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Had the most incredible #kubecon. Kicked off with #appdevelopercon, had the amazing @diagridio team on our booth, spoke at #cloudnativestartupfest and best of all #dapr graduation, indicating the project maturity, which we celebrated with a great party 🎉
See you at #kubeconEU London 🙏
See you at #kubeconEU London 🙏
Reposted by Mark Fussell
I'm proud and thrilled to share that today at KubeCon NA, CNCF announced that Dapr, an open source project from Azure Office of the CTO Incubations, has advanced to become a CNCF graduated project!
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dapr Graduation
Dapr provides a set of integrated APIs for building reliable and secure distributed applications, increasing developer productivity by 20-40% SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North…
www.cncf.io
November 12, 2024 at 10:57 PM
I'm proud and thrilled to share that today at KubeCon NA, CNCF announced that Dapr, an open source project from Azure Office of the CTO Incubations, has advanced to become a CNCF graduated project!
Very proud that 5 years after the #Dapr was release, it has now graduated in the CNCF! You can read more about the journey here diagrid.io/blog/announc...
Huge thanks to the community, the thousands of companies using Dapr and everyone involved with the project to achieve this incredible milestone🙏
Huge thanks to the community, the thousands of companies using Dapr and everyone involved with the project to achieve this incredible milestone🙏
Announcing Dapr's Graduation | Diagrid Blog
We have exciting news to share; the Dapr Project has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
diagrid.io
November 12, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Very proud that 5 years after the #Dapr was release, it has now graduated in the CNCF! You can read more about the journey here diagrid.io/blog/announc...
Huge thanks to the community, the thousands of companies using Dapr and everyone involved with the project to achieve this incredible milestone🙏
Huge thanks to the community, the thousands of companies using Dapr and everyone involved with the project to achieve this incredible milestone🙏