Celebrity Deathmatch: Akka.NET vs Orleans

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Direct comparison of two .NET actor frameworks: Orleans uses virtual actor proxies, automatic distribution and snapshot-style persistence (state saved as serializable objects) with exceptions marshaled back to the caller and a client library for remote calls; Akka.NET gives explicit messaging, supervision trees, pass-by-reference local messaging for higher same-node throughput and event-sourced persistence where journals replay into actors. A biased laptop benchmark shows Akka.NET faster and slightly leaner memory use; Phobos monitoring is paid at about $4k/year.

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1. 0:00Actor frameworks intro
2. 1:27Why use actors
3. 7:05Actor model origins
4. 12:23Actor concepts
5. 16:57Programming model diffs
6. 22:35Actor messaging
7. 27:04Cluster topologies
8. 33:02Error handling
9. 37:58Client cluster comms
10. 40:52Persisting actor state
11. 45:46Config and performance
12. 50:29Summary vs comparison
13. 54:25Q&A

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