Explore a 46-minute conference talk that demonstrates how to streamline local development of cloud-native applications without the need to master Kubernetes. Learn about the integration of Dapr and Testcontainers to abstract away complex distributed application concerns and provide standard application-level APIs. Through live demos, discover how to develop and test cloud-native Spring Boot or Quarkus applications efficiently, maintaining parity between development and production environments without sacrificing productivity. Gain insights into seamlessly incorporating sophisticated tooling into existing Java applications and leveraging cloud-native tools for local development without the overhead of running Kubernetes clusters.