Dapr & Kubernetes at SharperImage.com: Experiences from the Trenches
summary
Migrated a 70‑service ASP.NET Core platform on EKS from a homegrown framework to Dapr sidecars using Dapr sidecar + gRPC with mTLS, Zipkin tracing, Datadog, Bitbucket pipelines, AWS Parameter Store plus External Secrets, OpenSearch and SQL Server. Implemented a transactional outbox writing to DynamoDB with a Lambda that formats messages to Kafka while piloting Dapr outbox POCs. Reports a 99% CPU reduction and replicas falling from 5–10 to 2–3 per service, resulting in simpler ops, higher resilience and faster developer onboarding.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Microservices challenges
- 3:35Replacing internal framework
- 5:44Dapr integration start
- 7:31Commerce Cloud overview
- 9:44Service-to-service with Dapr
- 10:50Secrets management
- 11:53Event messaging with outbox
- 13:04Performance and scalability
- 14:52Resilience and monitoring
- 16:44Lessons and future plans
- 18:53Q&A
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