- Durable workflows — long-running orchestrations with checkpointing, retries, and durable timers. See Workflow.
- AI agents — durable, stateful agents whose execution survives process restarts. See AI agents.
- MCP servers — exposing tools and data to LLM agents over the Model Context Protocol. See MCP.
- Microservice composition — service-to-service invocation, pub/sub, state, secrets, bindings via the Dapr APIs.
- Event-driven processing — pub/sub fan-out, queue-backed processing, and resource bindings.