Microsoft recently launched Dapr Agents, providing developers with foundational tools to build AI agents based on its open-source Dapr runtime. Dapr features a concept called virtual actors, which allows for scalable management of system processes independently. Led by co-creators Yaron Schneider and Mark Fussell, the Dapr team aims to streamline the logic required for agent development. Dapr Agents evolved from the Floki project, integrating advanced orchestration capabilities that ordinary agent frameworks often lack, thereby enhancing the programming landscape for distributed systems with stateful management.
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."
In many ways we see agentic systems and the whole terminology around that as another term for 'distributed systems,' Dapr co-creator and maintainer Mark Fussell said. "[...] Rather than calling them microservices, you can call them agents now, mostly because you can put large workloads into these systems."
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