Azure Dapr can help .NET developers solve several challenges that they face when building distributed applications. In this course, Rodrigo Díaz Concha shows you how to build distributed applications and microservices easily with Dapr. Rodrigo begins by introducing Dapr as a portable, event-driven runtime for creating distributed applications in the cloud. He explains the sidecar pattern and the different components and tools that you will use in Dapr. Rodrigo walks you through preparing your development environment, then covers some of the most important building blocks in Dapr. This course focuses on publish and subscribe (pub/sub), service invocation, state management, and bindings.