Microsoft DeveloperWhat 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 Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Cross-platformScalable distributed applications
Orleans Pros & Cons
Pros of Orleans
- ✓Akka.net alternative
- ✓Async/Await
- ✓Distributed ACID Transactions
- ✓Distributed high-scale computing applications
- ✓Open source
- ✓Scalable
- ✓Virtual Actor Model
- ✓Cross Platform
- ✓Distributed Locking
- ✓Objects
Cons of Orleans
No cons listed yet.
Orleans Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Orleans?
RxJS
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Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
Netty
Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.
