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UMET Inc.’s mission to modernize its software infrastructure has been a great success. The e-commerce company now uses Rust microservices that run in lightweight Wasm containers so that they can be deployed anywhere in the cloud. However, as more microservices are created, the overhead for managing them is becoming a problem. Using the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) sidecar, a commonly used design pattern, you’ll create a proof of concept (PoC) that demonstrates the pattern’s benefits, including reducing the complexity of connecting multiple microservices and infrastructure services (e.g. databases and web proxies). When you’re finished, you’ll have refactored UMET’s microservices to work with Dapr, reducing the overhead required to manage them.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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This liveProject is for developers who are interested in learning how to refactor microservices with Dapr, reducing complexity and management overhead. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Rust programming basics (syntax, standard libraries, and building tools such as cargo and crates.io)
- Linux basics (use the command line, sudo, and open/map ports to the outside world)
- Basics of Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
- GitHub account (registration is free)
- Rust and Cargo toolchain
- WasmEdge Runtime
- Docker basics (commands, Dockerfile structure, Docker Compose, and the docker-compose.yml file)
- Basics of typical HTTP-based web services
- Basics of the 3-tier architecture for web applications
- Exchange data with a web service using JSON
- Use JSON in the frontend JavaScript framework
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn how to refactor microservices with Dapr, reducing complexity and management overhead.
- The sidecar design pattern for microservices
- Use Dapr as sidecars for Wasm-based microservices
- Work with the Dapr Rust SDK for WasmEdge
- Access basic Dapr features such as service invocation, state store, and secrets store from a WasmEdge microservice
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