Authors Haishi Bai and Yaron Schneider with Microsoft's Azure CTO team explain that, with Dapr, you don't need to include any SDKs or libraries in your user code. Instead, you automatically get flexible binding, state management, the actor pattern, pub-sub, reliable messaging, and many more features. This book shows developers, architects, CIOs, students, and computing enthusiasts how to get started with Dapr.Learn the new programming model for cloud native applicationsWrite high-performance distributed applications without drilling into technical detailsUse Dapr with any language or framework to write microservices easilyLearn how Dapr provides consistency and portability through open APIs and extensible, community-driven componentsExplore how Dapr handles state, resource bindings, and pub-sub messaging to enable resilient event-driven architectures that scaleIntegrate cloud applications with various SaaS offerings, such as machine learning