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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
3.3.0 / September 9, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-09-09)[1]
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.[2][3]

Overview

Orleans was originally created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research[2] 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.[4]

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.[5] The core Orleans technology was transferred to 343 Industries and is available as open source since January 2015.[6] The source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.[7]

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

Features

Some Orleans features include:[8]

The Electronic Arts BioWare division created Project Orbit. It is a Java implementation of virtual actors that was heavily inspired by the Orleans project.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tags · dotnet/orleans · GitHub". GitHub Orleans repository. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  2. ^ a b Microsoft's Orleans Distributed App Framework Is Now Cross Platform - The New Stack
  3. ^ Open-Source Cloud Framework By Microsoft - HPC ASIA
  4. ^ Microsoft to release Project Orleans as open source | Computerworld
  5. ^ Microsoft opens early adopter program for its 'Orleans' cloud framework | ZDNet
  6. ^ Microsoft to make Halo 4 gaming cloud engine Project Orleans open source - SiliconANGLE
  7. ^ https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/blob/master/LICENSE
  8. ^ Introduction | Microsoft Orleans Documentation
  9. ^ https://github.com/orbit/orbit-legacy/wiki
  10. ^ Gamasutra: Creating scalable backends for games using open source Orleans framework

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