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Totally off-topic, sorry: How did that name come about?
Microsoft Research has a tradition of naming projects after cities. Eg, if you type "microsoft research project" into Google (Bing appears to work better for this) and let it autocomplete, you can see some other projects which appear to be named after places: malmo, athens, tokyo, and others.
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"in anger" typically means for a real-world, serious project.
Is this a Britishism? I find Americans often are confused by it when I use it.
Hmmm, getting a very strong Microsoft Enterprise Library vibe.
The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of tools and programming libraries for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It provides APIs to facilitate proven practices in core areas of programming.
Packed full of Best Practices and more Enterprisey than Kirk, it was inscrutable to me.
Based on the novel Virtual Actor Design model, I assume Orleans is Design Patterns all the way down.
I'm a core developer on Orleans. Feel free to ask any questions here, or on gitter: https://gitter.im/dotnet/orleans I gave a talk recently on how we use it at Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgYlvGLv9c - the talk is very short and so it does not go into many details, but it gives an overview of some internal use cases.
Maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, but I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding hardware requirements. I love that with Erlang I can throw an experimental app on Digital Ocean for just $5/mo and see if it gets traction. How much more resource intensive is Orleans and what kind of resource usage should I expect as I scale up the number of actors?
It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era. Hmmm, getting a very strong Microsoft Enterprise Library vibe. The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of tools and programming libraries for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It provides APIs to facilitate proven practices in core areas of programming. P…
I'm a core developer on Orleans. Feel free to ask any questions here, or on gitter: https://gitter.im/dotnet/orleans I gave a talk recently on how we use it at Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhgYlvGLv9c - the talk is very short and so it does not go into many details, but it gives an overview of some internal use cases.
Going through the documentation, this is a complete trip. I see some of the original concepts are still intact, but the ergonomics are completely different now. Awesome!
I'm getting seriously bad .NET Remoting flashbacks. Someone tell me how this is different and won't hide important transactional boundaries.
References to grains are represented by interfaces and if the machine you're communicating with fails, the grain will be re-activated on a surviving host the next time you need to call it. In other words, they are location transparent and the application won't get stuck in some failure state when a machine crashes.
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Yeah, same with Cadence/Temporal. The one caveat is that you have to move all observable effects into activities so that they can be cached. Under the hood, the engine replays functions to rehydrate them, if necessary.
I'm also one of the core developers of Orleans. Ironically, I recently joined Temporal. There are definitely some similarities, but also major differences between the models, especially when it comes to the execution model and fault tolerance.
It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era. Hmmm, getting a very strong Microsoft Enterprise Library vibe. The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a set of tools and programming libraries for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It provides APIs to facilitate proven practices in core areas of programming. P…
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Microsoft Research has a tradition of naming projects after cities. Eg, if you type "microsoft research project" into Google (Bing appears to work better for this) and let it autocomplete, you can see some other projects which appear to be named after places: malmo, athens, tokyo, and others.
Then why Orleans and not ?