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Orleans
Original author(s)Microsoft Research
Developer(s)Microsoft, 343 Industries
Initial releaseJanuary 2015; 10 years ago (2015-01)
Stable release
3.0 / October 30, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-10-30)
Repositorygithub.com/dotnet/orleans
Written inC#
Operating systemWindows, Linux, macOS
Platform.NET Framework,
.NET Core
TypeSoftware framework
LicenseMIT License
Websitedotnet.github.io/orleans/

Orleans is a cross-platform software framework for building scalable and robust distributed interactive applications based on the .NET Framework.[1][2]

Overview

Orleans was originally created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research[1] and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a new approach to building distributed systems for the cloud. Orleans scales from a single on-premises server to highly-available and globally distributed applications in the cloud.[3]

Starting with cloud services for the Halo franchise, the framework has been used by a number of cloud services at Microsoft and other companies since 2011.[4] The core Orleans technology was transferred to 343 Industries and is available as open source since January 2015.[5] The source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.[6]

Orleans runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS and is compatible with .NET Standard 2.0 and above.

Features

Some Orleans features include:[7]

The Electronic Arts BioWare division created Project Orbit. It is a Java implementation of virtual actors that was heavily inspired by the Orleans project.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Microsoft's Orleans Distributed App Framework Is Now Cross Platform - The New Stack
  2. ^ Open-Source Cloud Framework By Microsoft - HPC ASIA
  3. ^ Microsoft to release Project Orleans as open source | Computerworld
  4. ^ Microsoft opens early adopter program for its 'Orleans' cloud framework | ZDNet
  5. ^ Microsoft to make Halo 4 gaming cloud engine Project Orleans open source - SiliconANGLE
  6. ^ https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/blob/master/LICENSE
  7. ^ Introduction | Microsoft Orleans Documentation
  8. ^ https://github.com/orbit/orbit-legacy/wiki
  9. ^ Gamasutra: Creating scalable backends for games using open source Orleans framework

Further reading

  • "Orleans: Cloud Computing for Everyone". Association for Computing Machinery. 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
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