Microsoft Orleans for Developers: Build Cloud-Native, High-Scale, Distributed Systems in .NET Using Orleans

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R. AstburyMicrosoft Orleans for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8167-3_1

1. Fundamentals

Richard Astbury¹  

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Woodbridge, UK

 

Microsoft Orleans is a free, open source framework built on Microsoft .NET, 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, which runs software across a cluster of servers, treating them as a single address space. This allows the developer to build software which keeps lots of data in memory, by spreading objects across the cluster’s shared memory space. This enables ...