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LangGraph is a good answer when your agent naturally looks like a graph. It gets harder to defend...

A five-person team usually picks the infrastructure it never has to think about, and that is the...

"Retry the tool call" sounds harmless until the tool issues a refund. Then durability, identity, and...

"One orchestrator for everything" sounds like a clean platform strategy. It also packs three...

A multi-agent support flow is still a distributed system. You can make it sound less scary by giving...

In a regulated workflow, "the agent made a reasonable decision" does not count as an audit trail....

Durable execution has become an expectation for agent workloads. If the process dies halfway through...

LangGraph checkpointing lets an agent resume from saved state. In production that leaves a gap: when...

Getting a research agent to call three tools in a demo is easy. The hard part starts when the seventh...

Developing Dapr applications means you're dealing with multiple apps and sidecars, looking at several...

LLM calls are slow, costly, and non-deterministic, so a multi-agent app that crashes halfway through...

LLMs are frozen at training time, so they return confident answers that may already be out of date....

A free, self-paced track that walks through Dapr Workflow in a .NET Aspire solution. Runs in your...

The 2026 State of Dapr report is out. Workflow API usage doubled year over year. 34% of developers...

TL;DR: Register here for the webinar on May 7th. Join Marc Duiker and Whit Waldo for a live webinar...

We are excited to invite you to the Diagrid Catalyst AWS Hackathon—a four-week, virtual event where...

Intro When developers build distributed systems, they need to think about cross-cutting...

The Dapr maintainers released a new version of Dapr, the distributed application runtime, last week....

In this post, you’ll learn how to use the Dapr pluggable component .NET SDK and the Supabase C#...

In this post, you’ll learn how to build a cloud to edge event-driven application with Dapr and...

EDIT: updated for the Dapr 1.15 release :) I've recently upgraded my local Dapr runtime and the...

The Dapr maintainers released a new version of Dapr, the distributed application runtime 🎉. This post...

Conferences I love ❤️ going to in-person conferences, especially when I'm invited to speak...

It has been one year since I've joined the DevRel team at Ably as Sr Developer Advocate. In this post...

In this post I'll explain how to use a cloud pubsub service such as Ably to visualize the progress of...

In this post, I compare two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably, to determine which...

In this post I'll explain how data is distributed in realtime using pub/sub over WebSockets in a...

Article statistics Did you ever check the statistics of your DEV article via the dashboard...

We're excited to announce the Ably VS Code extension! With this extension you can manage your Ably...

In this post I'll explain the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) pattern, and how you can apply it in a .NET...