238: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Microservices in 2025 with Mark Fussell, Founder & CEO at Diagrid

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Mark’s Background and Journey in Data (1:08)
• Mark’s Time at Microsoft (5:33)
• Internal Adoption of Azure (9:20)
• Understanding Pain Points (11:06)
• Complexity in Software Development (13:15)
• Microservices Architecture Overview (17:15)
• Microservices vs. Monolith (22:08)
• Modernizing Legacy Applications (24:39)
• Dependency Management with Dapr (29:43)
• Infrastructure as Code (33:04)
• AI's Rapid Evolution and Vendor Changes (37:27)
• Language Models in Application Development (39:05)
• AI in Creative Applications (42:59)
• The Future of Backend Development (47:22)
• Streamlining Development Processes (49:29)
• Dapr as an Open Source Solution (51:11)
• Getting Started with Dapr and Parting Thoughts (51:39)

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