Discover best practices for writing distributed application code that excels at scale in this conference talk by Kendall Roden from Microsoft and Alice Gibbons from Diagrid. Learn how to tackle the challenges of building distributed apps and microservices, including fault tolerance, outages, disaster recovery, hot spots, scalability, and concurrency issues. Explore resiliency techniques, distributed locking, and optimization strategies for common tasks such as asynchronous messaging, pub-sub systems, state management, and secrets handling. Gain insights into abstractions and implementations that simplify the development process in your preferred programming model and language while targeting Kubernetes environments. Benefit from the expertise of professionals who have contributed to Dapr and various hyper-scale cloud services in production.