Building distributed applications with Orleans

Orleans is a framework for building high-scale distributed applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns.

In this episode, Sergey Bykov (@sergeybykov) joins us to talk about how Orleans works, and what are some of the use cases of the framework.

• [02:07] - What is Orleans and what problem does it solve?
• [03:58] - How does this architecture impact characteristics of the system?
• [05:18] - How do you implement a Grain in Orleans?
• [09:25] - How does Orleans manage resource allocation?
• [13:02] - What types of applications is Orleans used for?
• [18:35] - Where can you go to learn more about Orleans?
• [19:28] - What's up next for Orleans?

Check out the links below to learn more about Orleans.

• Orleans documentation and tutorials: http://dotnet.github.io/orleans 
• Orleans on GitHub: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans
• Orleans Gitter Chat: https://gitter.im/dotnet/orleans
• Orleans on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTOrleans