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_2

2. Introducing Microsoft Orleans

Thomas Nelson¹  

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Louisville, KY, USA

 

What Can Orleans Do for Us?

Orleans helps developers to easily create cloud-native, elastic, highly available applications. It allows us to take advantage of the actor framework attributes such as elasticity, concurrency, and high availability without having to be an expert in distributed systems. Services such as IoT, Stock exchanges, and email systems are great use cases for actor frameworks. What is truly amazing about it is that it gives a single dev the ability to write an application themselves by using ...