Dapr + Score: Crafting and improving your developers experience

This talk demonstrates a practical blueprint between Dapr and Score, where you will see how to deploy any Dapr containerized workloads defined by Score, to Docker Compose, Kubernetes or the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator. You’ll see in action how Dapr (integrated APIs for communication, state, and workflow) and Score (workload specification) smoothly complement each other and how they can pave the way for an end-to-end developer workflow at scale.

Developer Experience (DevEx) is an important concept in Platform Engineering and in the cloud native space, advocating for self-service and reduced cognitive load. Its primary goal is to empower developers, allowing them to focus on application development rather than fighting with infrastructure intricacies. What is the right level of abstraction? Which type of tooling is essential? And how can teams identify the concepts and workflows that drive value and success?

Tools such as Dapr (integrated APIs for communication, state, and workflow) and Score (workload specification) are being used in innovative ways to make a wider range of developers more productive. On one hand, they allow the Developers to be abstracted from underlying infrastructure and dependencies. On the other hand, Platform Engineers can easily configure the building blocks and associated infrastructure, seamlessly for the Developers.

This talk demonstrates a practical blueprint between Dapr and Score, where you will see how to deploy any Dapr containerized workloads defined by Score, to Docker Compose, Kubernetes or the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator. You’ll see in action how Dapr and Score smoothly complement each other and how they can pave the way for an end-to-end developer workflow at scale.