What is Orleans?
Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.
Orleans is a tool in the Concurrency Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Orleans is an open source tool with 10.1K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Orleans's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Orleans?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use Orleans in their tech stacks, including Checkout.com, Challengermode, and yunfan.
Developers
51 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Orleans.
Orleans Integrations
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Orleans's Features
- Cross-platform
- Scalable distributed applications
Orleans Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Orleans?
Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
Dapr
It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.
Lens
It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
Erlang
Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
