Add idea: Dapr-aware GoRouter - #32
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Explores what it would look like for GoRouter to route based on where a unit of durable work lives rather than which instance is free \u2014 i.e. resolving a Dapr actor/workflow ID to the specific app instance that owns it.
Core observation: Dapr's placement table and GoRouter's route table are the same kind of object (logical identity \u2192 backend instances, NATS-disseminated, churn-reactive), and CF already has instance-addressed routing via
X-CF-APP-INSTANCEand__VCAP_ID__.Presents three depths as a progression:
X-CF-APP-INSTANCE; zero GoRouter changes.dapr-placement-serveron CF.Includes an honest risk section on the consistency problem (actors are single-threaded and stateful; Dapr uses Raft to prevent double-activation, while GoRouter's route table is eventually consistent), with 'keep the sidecar authoritative' as the safe mitigation.
Builds on RFC-0055 (identity-aware routing) and RFC-0027 (per-route features). Sibling to the
dapr-durable-execution-on-cfidea, which leaves actor placement as its one genuinely open question.