m3o VS dapr

Compare m3o vs dapr and see what are their differences.

m3o

Serverless Micro Services (by m3o)

dapr

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. (by dapr)
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m3o dapr
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2,283 23,147
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9.1 9.7
4 months ago 9 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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m3o

Posts with mentions or reviews of m3o. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
  • Show HN: Micro Chat – Private group chat
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    Sorry what I meant is I've been working on the open source Micro project for 8 years which underpins this. The chat app itself was not really something I meant as being open source but yes it's in a separate repo with the API hosting product I built called M3O.com.

    https://github.com/m3o/m3o

  • M3O: Serverless Micro services gateway
    2 projects | /r/microservices | 5 Apr 2023
  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2023
    Email: [email protected]

    Spent the last 10 years mostly working with microservices and Go based startups, although I would not recommend microservices to most companies. I can save you a few million dollars if you wonder why.

    I'm most passionate about improving DevEx in companies. Things like writing custom ORMs for lesser known/supported databases (see eg. https://github.com/gocassa/gocassa). Mostly worked with startups from $2M-$500M funding range, with the occasional enterprise gig.

    Used to run a chicken shop as a hobby project which made me careful of accepting management positions, haha, people are hard. I would love to be a product owner, I mostly designed the https://m3o.com/ product with the CEO recently and implemented the MVP of it. It's open source stuff, check it out https://github.com/m3o

    Currently working for a US startup but my contract is ending soon.

    Cheers!

  • Go Framework: No Framework?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    It goes back to, what is a framework and what qualifies as a big framework here. I think classic rails isn't the fit, but something that's an extension of gRPC definitely works. What gets handcrafted is a lot of layers around gRPC or far more stuff around HTTP.

    When I'm working on personal projects, frameworks don't make sense for me. When I'm trying to engineer something at scale e.g https://m3o.com then I need that standardisation at the platform layer, the framework layer, the API layer.

    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    What if any is the relationship between https://m3o.com/ and https://micro.dev/ ?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    Yup, I was the author of go-micro. It was very much a standalone Go framework aka common interfaces grouped together for distributed systems development. By using interfaces they effectively became pluggable abstractions for infrastructure. Unfortunately I don't think a Go library alone solves the problems I was trying to solve so it got merged into Micro which is platform that includes a CLI, API, Runtime, etc. It powers https://m3o.com
  • [API Request] - looking for Whatsapp status tracker API
    2 projects | /r/api | 22 Nov 2022
    We can potentially do this on https://m3o.com. It doesn't exist yet but would make sense as the next service we offer. Further details would be useful e.g endpoints required.
  • OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries from OpenAPI Specs
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2022
    We ended up building this in-house like most mentioned. Speakeasy and Stainless are productizing it. Our goal was just to make it available for APIs we were offering to others (https://m3o.com).
  • Real World Micro Services
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2022
    I value your points because they are the same concerns I would have being a CTO of a company. Ultimately vendors don't yet care enough about this problem to invest in it and I think ultimately that's a mistake because while we have standardisation at the Cloud infrastructure layer, we're missing everything above it. The cost of development to an organisation in these services is quite frankly astronomical. You've got hundreds of devs rewriting identical CRUD services or proxy shims to existing SaaS across the entire industry. That's millions in capex just being burned.

    In relation to being a CTO of a small startup, yea OSS maintainer risk is tough. You want to use projects that are used by hundreds of companies and actively maintained. In my case, I am the primary maintainer and it's used for a cloud service called M3O - https://m3o.com. I think it will take a while before we're in a place to warrant more buy in but my hope is eventually it'll get there or at the very least people will come to use the APIs serviced by M3O.

    On architecture, I mean you're quite literally talking about software "build vs buy" tradeoffs for the entirety of all software you ever write. In this case, do I integrate something else or write it myself. I think that comes down to the same assessment of whether you should offload to some other piece of software versus your own. When it comes to domain specific services this is always tough yet we see the adoption of the likes of Twilio for SMS, Sendgrid for Email and Stripe for Payments so I'd argue we're getting closer to blurring the lines now.

    On cost, you can use the hosted offering - https://m3o.com - but at this point the reason I'm sharing the open source services is really because I think that adoption curve to a cloud service takes a lot longer especially with domain specific services. I would argue these services while on the surface appear a commodity, the development time and integration cost of using bespoke independent APIs or services has a much higher cost. Everyone internally ends up writing proxy/shims to SaaS products to try eliminate this risk for themselves. I just think we should standardise a lot of our business logic service consumption.

    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2022
    lol, really don't want to be in the same sentence as Urbit so please no.

    Everything is defined as protobuf interfaces, which is a standard used by Google and everyone else now that gRPC is so dominant. So the idea is, define the API in protobuf, code generate and implement the handlers for it. The service can be called by other services on the platform using that code generation and then an API Gateway, which Micro provides can be used to call services externally using the same format but using HTTP/JSON.

    To take that even further, M3O (m3o.com) codifies protobuf to openapi specs and then generates client libraries on top. You can see some of that in https://github.com/m3o/m3o.

dapr

Posts with mentions or reviews of dapr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
  • Comparing Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Oct 2023
    Azure Container Apps hosting of Azure Functions is a way to host Azure Functions directly in Container Apps - additionally to App Service with and without containers. This offering also adds some Container Apps built-in capabilities like the Dapr microservices framework which would allow for mixing microservices workloads on the same environment with Functions.
  • Episode 150: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2023
    Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything 😉) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
  • Ensuring Seamless Operations: Troubleshooting and Resolving Dapr Certificate Expiry
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2023
    A CNCF project, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service to service invocation or pub/sub messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Essentially, it provides a new way to build microservices by using the reusable blocks implemented as sidecars.
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2023
    I had no overview of the Dapr system which caused me a lot of time in trying to get to the root cause. So first thing I did was to create a nice dashboard where we can have an overview of our Dapr services and their certificates. I started from the official one from Grafana for this. But the dashboard is a bit outdated so I had some issues with the queries, so I did some changes and you can find the JSON of the dashboard below if it helps anyone.
  • Modular Architecture Design question | Re-using modules in multiple applications
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 17 May 2023
    I would like to build modules, either in a modular monolith style, or in a microservice style using DAPR and/or Tye.
  • Ask HN: Modern Node.js Request Fault Tolerance Library?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    Just heard about Dapr last week. Might be more than what you are asking, though but it’s probably worth a look.

    https://dapr.io/

  • Creating a Dapr pluggable component for Supabase
    5 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2023
    From my perspective, I’d like to explore further how Dapr can integrate with other Supabase features. It would also be great to see a Supabase state store as a built-in component that’s available in the Dapr runtime without the need of running the pluggable component separately. I also hope the proposed DocumentStore building block will get some traction this year, since this will pair up very nicely with Supabase and other PostgreSQL stores.
  • Kv.js
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2023
    Could you use Kubernetes to solve this? Have a single pod running the Redis instance and then multiple running Node.js talking to the Redis instance via something like DAPR (https://dapr.io/)
  • Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
    7 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Apr 2023
    Dapr is also building a workflow orchestrator into their microservice system. It's almost in Beta, and when you combine it with Dapr's Virtual Actors, it looks powerful. It will also let you integrate a workflow engine like Temporal, too. https://dapr.io/
  • (April) - Monthly Shameless Plug
    4 projects | /r/platformengineering | 5 Apr 2023
    This fantastic blog from Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino shows how tools like Kratix (kratix.io) and Dapr (dapr.io) can help streamline golden paths: https://blog.dapr.io/posts/2023/04/02/creating-dapr-enabled-platforms-with-kratix/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing m3o and dapr you can also consider the following projects:

MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET

camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers

tye - Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.

OpenFaaS - OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

NServiceBus - Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET

go-micro - A Go microservices framework

go-kit - A standard library for microservices.

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

CoreWCF - Main repository for the Core WCF project