Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents

Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks for supporting AI agents built-in from the outset. That’s because one of Dapr’s core features is a concept of virtual actors, which can receive and process messages, independently from all the other actors in the system. Today, the Dapr team is launching Dapr Agents, its take on helping developers build AI agents by providing them with a lot of the building blocks to do so. “Agents are a very good use case for Dapr,” Dapr co-creator and maintainer Yaron Schneider explained. “From a technical perspective, you could use actors as a very lightweight way to run these agents and really be able to run them at scale with state — and be resource-efficient. This is all great, but then, there is still a lot of business logic you need to write. Th ... Read full article.