Chapter 4: Understanding Grains and Silos
In the first part of this book, we learned about distributed applications and different patterns for implementing them. We also learned about the motivation behind building the Orleans framework and comprehended the major architectural decisions that went into designing the features of Orleans, as well as the rationale behind them.
In this chapter, we will delve deep into building a distributed application with Orleans. We will start this chapter by understanding the basic building blocks of Orleans, grains and silos, and see how easy it is to get an Orleans application up and running. This chapter will lay the foundation for building Orleans applications. We will also learn about the choices that developers ...
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