2. Scalable by Design: The “Orleans” Actor Framework for Azure
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3. Agenda The Problem Domain The Actor Model The Orleans Framework Demos
Hello, Grains!
Pass The Parcel
Observe Closely
Putting It All Together
Wrap Up

4. The Problem Scalable Load Errors Responsive Latency Performance
Unpredictability
Decoupled
Performance
Concurrency
Load
Responsive
Resilient
Failure
Unreliability
Data Consistency

5. What is the Actor model? Introduced in 1973
Deals with concurrency realistically
An Actor is a fundamental unit of computation
Processing
Storage
Communication

6. Actors Create other actors Send messages to other actors
Process one message at a time
Designate what to do with the next message

7. Orleans: DistributedVirtual Actors Actors
Actors exist eternally
Treat actors like plain old objects
Activated & deactivated automatically
Location transparent
First-class asynchrony
Create other actors
Send messages to other actors
Process one message at a time
Designate what to do with the next message

8. A cloud native runtime New Activation New Activations Unavailable Silo
Build 2014
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A cloud native runtime
New Activation
New Activations
Unavailable Silo
New Silo
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9. Hello, Grains Reuben Bond TechEd 2013 9/10/2018 2:34 PM
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10. Pass The Parcel
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11. Observe Closely
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12. Putting It All Together
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Putting It All Together
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13. Summary Actor Model “Orleans” Framework Features Uses
A way of writing concurrent, distributed applications
An actor is the primary building block
“Orleans” Framework
Actor model implemented on .NET for Azure
Runtime + SDK
Features
Virtual Actors
Abstracts away the difficult bits
Uses
Smart Caches, Gaming, IoT, Cloud Apps

14. Related Content http://orleans.codeplex.com
Samples, Documentation, Videos, Articles, Forums
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15. Related content http://orleans.codeplex.com
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