In this week's newsletter:

Dapr 1.14, Better than Ever

A new major version of Dapr is here! This release is jam-packed with features heavily influenced by user feedback, including performance improvements in actor reminders and workflows, streaming subscriptions, actors multi-tenancy and more! See how to upgrade in the release blog, where you can also find demos of the new features performed by the contributors who developed them. 

Running on Kubernetes? The fastest way to get started with the latest and greatest from Dapr is to sign up for Conductor Free. Within minutes, onboard a cluster, find and resolve an automatically generated advisory, and try out Component Builder.

Automate Best Practices with Diagrid Conductor

You can automate the process of detecting and implementing best practices when developing distributed applications with the Conductor Advisor feature, available now on Free and Enterprise plans. Learn more about it in this blog, and sign up for this month's webinar to see it in action, demonstrated by our customer success team. They'll be available for live Q&A during the session, so don't miss this exclusive learning opportunity!

New Content

• Dapr and Service Meshes - Better Together: Overlapping features often raise questions about when you should choose Dapr or a Service Mesh when trying to make your distributed system architecture more robust. Our customer success engineer, Fernando Rocha, explains why the answer may be 'both.'
• How Dapr Enabled Lightning Speed Development at Watts Water Technologies: Dapr helps abstract away the complexities of building distributed, cloud-native systems. See how this IoT company saved over 100 development hours by onboarding Dapr's SDK (and how they did it in less than a month!) 
• "Productionalize" Your Dapr-Enabled Applications with Conductor Advisor: Our next webinar features Conductor Advisor, a powerful tool that automates the discovery and implementation of best practice recommendations. See how to improve your application stability, resilience, and security, and ask your questions live!
• Dapr 1.14 Feature Wrap-up: The latest Dapr release is jam-packed with frequently-requested features and updates. Learn about each one in this blog, and see a demonstration hosted by the contributors who developed them. Plus, learn how to get started with upgrading your Dapr version or getting started for the first time.

Upcoming Events

• September 16-18 | Vienna, Austria - Meet developer advocate Marc Duiker at Open Source Summit Europe and catch his session "Start Building Distributed Applications with Ease Using Building Block APIs"
• September 26 | Webinar - The Diagrid customer success team will demonstrate how to "Productionalize Your Dapr-Enabled Applications with Diagrid Conductor Advisor."
• October 3 | Webinar - Join us to see amazing Catalyst demos from our AWS Hackathon winners during Unleashing Innovation with Diagrid Catalyst