Stairway to Cloud: Orleans Framework for building Halo-scale systems
summary
Orleans is an open source .NET framework that implements a virtual actor model via logical “grains” that auto-activate/deactivate and run single-threaded, letting developers write asynchronous RPC-style calls without explicit locking. It powers Halo Reach/Halo 4/Halo 5, Age of Empires, Skype and Azure Monitoring in production since 2011, handling hundreds of thousands of updates/sec across millions of users. Features include pluggable persistence providers, a unified streams API, linear scalability in clusters, claims of 3–10× developer productivity and measured ~20–26× faster serialization in benchmarks. grains activate/deactivate automatically, async await RPC semantics.
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- 0:00Start
- 4:23All that glitters is gold
- 15:07Orleans: Actor Model for the Cloud
- 40:28Declarative persistence
- 46:19When tomorrow comes
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