Xavier Geerinck

Integrate Dapr with Nest.js and the Dapr JS SDK

As the official maintainer of the [Dapr JS SDK](https://github.com/dapr/js-sdk), I am always looking on how we can improve our documentation, tooling and API to integrate Dapr through Javascript.

Enabling Serverless AI with Azure Container Apps and Dapr

In my [previous post](/post/2021/12/20/coding-ai-dapr-container-apps) I explained how you can get started with Container Apps. The one missing piece of that puzzle is how you can utilize a queue behind to dynamically scale your workload based on items in a queue! This has been one my most difficult blog items so far, taking me through a range of different issues with Container Apps and Dapr, but which definitely aided those services and myself in becoming more mature.

Running your AI Workload through Azure Container Apps

For a new project I am working on, I am utilizing a Queuing architecture where jobs come in and a cluster of containers is processing work on this queue. Each job takes an item from a queue, runs the item through its AI pipeline and spits out a JSON response.

Parking Garage Sensor implementation using Dapr Actors

The reworked Dapr Javascript SDK has been released a couple of weeks ago! Together with a brand new and easier to use SDK, we have been thinking in the community of reworking the documentation to simplify the examples, more specifically the Actors examples.

Running Dapr on Azure IoT Edge

I've been working on a large-scale project that has some interesting requirements performance wise. While having around 6+ modules, I should get a performance of around 10ms roundtrip! One container does AI inferencing within ~2ms.

Tutorial - Creating an Email Microservice with Typescript and Dapr

Once in a while a new project comes out that I am totally hyped about! [Dapr](https://dapr.io) is such a Project! In this article I would like to go in-depth on how we can quickly (< 10min!!!) create a Microservice that will send an email through a Microservice invocation mechanism!

How to integrate Dapr and Apache Kafka through Bindings (input and output)

For a new project I am working on, I want to utilize Dapr to integrate Kafka such that a REST endpoint is automatically called in my application.

Debugging Common Dapr Issues

As a new sort of writing, I wanted to create a "debugging" blog post where I list "my rookie" mistakes that I made while working with Dapr. I hope that by sharing I can help others to more quickly resolve their own issues 😊

Roadwork RL - A Multi-Language Reinforcement Learning Environment

After explaining the end-to-end concept of [creating a Digital Twin Reinforcement Learning environment](/post/2020/4/15/coding-ai-rl-iot-twin-rl) I wanted to go into a deeper explanation of how the first part of this can be done.

Dapr - Creating a User Login/Register Microservice

In an earlier post, I went in more detail how you can utilize Dapr to create a Microservice that communicates over gRPC for quick Inter-Process Communication (IPC).

Getting started with Dapr, Python and gRPC

The cloud war is heating up and one of the main challenges is the fear of lock-in created by these providers. Helping the raise of Kubernetes as a provider, since this allows customers to quickly move between one and the other (a deployment is a deployment, no matter the cloud you run it on.).