Speaking at FutureTech 2026
TLDR: Slides & code demos on GitHub
On March 11, I was at FutureTech to give my session, ‘Turning microservice chaos into a beautiful concerto’.
Building reliable distributed applications can feel like conducting a sloppy orchestra, where musicians play too loud or can’t keep the tempo. As the conductor, you need to set the pace and give instructions to deliver a beautiful performance. When you build microservices and need to coordinate multistep processes, you have to think about the order of execution, time-outs, cascading failures, inconsistent state, and you have very little control to manage the process once it’s started.
Dapr Workflow provides a solution through durable execution, a programming model that treats distributed processes like a musical score. Just as a conductor coordinates multiple musicians to play a symphony, Dapr Workflow orchestrates microservices with built-in state persistence, workflow patterns to control the processes in great detail, and workflow management APIs to operate workflows reliably.
In my session I ran several Dapr workflows, written in .NET, to sequence music notes, where each workflow step communicates with a microservice that sends a note event to a front-end that uses Web MIDI to play my Behringer Grind synthesizer in real-time. The audience could listen how workflows were progressing! This was the first time I presented this session and performed with one of my synthesizers, and I absolutely loved it. I’m looking forward to give this session more frequently!
A big thank you to the FutureTech organizers and sponsors for making this event happen, and thanks to the attendees for attending my session and the enthusiastic response!
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