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Would GC.TryStartNoGCRegion work for you? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.gc.tryst...

We have a section in the FAQ about it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/reference/as... In short, these are complimentary things. Think about it like this: you use a…

We should chat more about Reminders v2 - I want to learn more about what you'd like it to provide. Can you comment on the issue ( https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/issues/7573 )? I…

There were a bunch of new features added to Orleans in the past year, including Live Grain Migration, IAsyncEnumerable support, Cosmos DB & Redis providers. I think workflows (dura…

Which systems use Calvin-like protocols?

> Anything but RabbitMQ. Would you mind elaborating on this? I'd be happy for others to chime in with their experiences/opinions, too.

Not the same, but this reminds me of the Epoch Protection Version Scheme discussed in this paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3533737.3535091 EPVS is used in Microsoft …

I used it to test an idea I had to implement the Fast Paxos optimization on top of CASPaxos and it was quite useful for that: https://github.com/ReubenBond/fast-caspaxos (the code …

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Coyote is a great tool/library from Microsoft for testing large numbers of schedules in .NET programs: https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/

If task A & B perform IO (eg, a DB call) and the alternatives are running them sequentially on one thread or running them concurrently (via async/await) on one thread, then running…

> Consider that the minimum grain of a Task.Delay is 1 millisecond. The minimum here is contingent on a few things. The API can accept a TimeSpan which can express durations as low…

The Opus OpenSubtitles corpus was very useful when I was creating this Chinese-English dictionary app: https://github.com/ReubenBond/HanBaoBao . The tool which creates the dictiona…

Given how Ray "provides [...] exactly-once semantics" for its actors, you could draw similarities between it and workflow-as-code frameworks such as https://temporal.io . The way t…

> I was watching a talk from Microsoft on the topic where they would refer to actors as “cloud native objects” and the model itself as an ideal way to do OOP on distributed systems…

The Raft paper is there. It's the first paper under the "Expository papers and blog posts" section

Orleans and Service Fabric are different. Orleans has been running in production for some time now and is actively developed on GitHub: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans . Teams in…

Have you seen Orleans? https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

> why it took up to 6 years for MS to release an experimental fix [1] to run on Kubernetes? > where I can find the outstanding issue in the release notes that [1] tries to fix? - i…

Interesting take. We run Orleans on Kubernetes in production at Microsoft on multiple services. Other services run Orleans on Service Fabric in production - SF is similar to Kubern…

I think if you look at the consistent development history, you can use that as an indicator. Internal teams host it on Kubernetes (Linux), Service Fabric (Windows), and other place…

No, Service Fabric Reliable Actors are based on the Orleans API and model

There is a new package which adds improved Kubernetes integration and fixes the issues you mentioned specifically. It's in beta right now, but we expect a stable release soon. Feel…

There are developers using Orleans with F#, so it does work. It is not as nice of an experience as it ought to be, though. For example, it requires a dummy C# project to hold the g…