Explore the world of microservices and distributed applications in this 58-minute conference talk from NDC Oslo 2020. Discover how the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) empowers developers to build cloud-native applications with ease, regardless of their preferred programming language or framework. Learn about the challenges of microservice architecture and how Dapr addresses common issues such as state management, resilient calls, and event handling. Gain insights into building scalable, event-driven code that can run on any cloud platform. Understand how Dapr's open-source project and vibrant community support developers in creating efficient, portable microservice applications while focusing on business logic rather than complex distributed systems concepts.