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Introduction to Microsoft Orleans

by Richard Astbury

Microsoft Orleans, the Virtual Actor Framework developed by Microsoft Research is ideal for building distributed high scale systems with C#.

What you'll learn

Microsoft Orleans, the Virtual Actor Framework developed by Microsoft Research is ideal for building distributed high scale systems with C#. This course starts with an explanation of the Actor Model, and then covers each of the core concepts in Orleans by building upon a practical “internet of things” scenario.

About the author

Richard Astbury helps software businesses around Europe migrate their applications to the cloud. He works with a wide variety of companies, ranging from the smallest startups to the largest software businesses in the world, and specializes in moving applications that were never designed to run in the cloud, utilize the Windows Azure platform. Richard is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure, and Senior consultant at Two10 Degrees. He is often found developing open source software in C# and Node.js, ... more

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