Orleans.NET

What is it?

• Implementation of a virtual actor system.
  • More on what that means later.

Use cases

• Stateful distributed workloads.
• Gaming
  • Halo
• IoT
• Energy systems

Basic concepts

• What is an actor?
  • What is a grain?
    • How do they differ?
• What is an actor system?
  • What is a silo?
  • Location Transparency?
• …

Benefits

• Speed (lot’s of things can happen just in memory).
• Location Transparency.

Advanced concepts

• Observable
• Streams

Experiences

• Designing a solution
• Test-ability

Capabilities

• Observability
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXiGhFBd90.
  • OpenTelemetry based, supports logging, tracing and metrics.
  • Orleans Dashboard (previously community based)
    • Says a lot about
• Event Sourcing
  • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/grains/event-sourcing/