Introducing Microsoft Orleans: Implementing Cloud-Native Services with a Virtual Actor Framework

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T. NelsonIntroducing Microsoft Orleanshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8014-0_1

1. A Primer on Microsoft Orleans and the Actor Model

Thomas Nelson¹  

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Louisville, KY, USA

 

Origins of Orleans

Microsoft Orleans is an open source project, which provides the developer with a simple programming model enabling them to build software, which can scale from a single machine to hundreds of servers.

You can think of Orleans as a distributed runtime, allowing the .NET developer to easily build software capable of processing high volumes of data and deployable to the cloud or on-premises.

Orleans is a “batteries included” framework, which ships with many of the features ...