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10. Conclusion

Thomas Nelson1  
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Louisville, KY, USA
 

Throughout this book, we discussed how Orleans originated to meet the needs of cloud development and to take advantage of the decentralized structure. In addition, Orleans was created to make decentralized development easier for developers to learn by removing a majority of the low-level work through the Orleans framework, such as virtual actors.

Afterward, we dove into the lifecycles and how they reduce overhead for developers. For example, the framework monitors the grains and keeps them active in memory or decommissions ...

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