This post is the seventh part of Building Microservice Applications with Azure Container Apps and Dapr. It covers how to extend the backend background processor service using Dapr Input and Output Bindings to achieve three scenarios: triggering a process based on a configurable interval schedule, triggering a process based on a message sent to a specific Azure Storage Queue, and invoking an external resource. The post also includes a high-level architecture diagram to understand the flow of input and output bindings in Dapr. The source code for the tutorial is available on GitHub, and a demo application is provided. Additionally, the post discusses how to expose an event handler to receive and process messages coming to the storage queue and trigger an event once the processing of the message is complete.
