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_2

2. Grains and Silos

Richard Astbury¹  

(1)

Woodbridge, UK

 

In this chapter, we will dig into the fundamental components of Orleans: Grains and Silos.

Grains

In the previous chapter, we learnt that Orleans keeps objects in memory, these objects have both state and logic, and the system routes requests to them based on their identity. In Orleans, we call this object a “Grains.” This is analogous to a grains of wheat, as we think of these objects as small and in abundance.

The properties of a grains are as follows:

• Grains have an identity.

• Only a single instance of a grains will be ...