Orleans (software framework)

Orleans is a cross-platform software framework for building scalable and robust distributed interactive applications based on the .NET Framework.[2][3]

Orleans
Original author(s)Microsoft Research
Developer(s)Microsoft, 343 Industries
Initial releaseJanuary 2015 (2015-01)
Stable release
3.3.0 / September 9, 2020 (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/

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[5] and other companies since 2011.[6] The core Orleans technology was transferred to 343 Industries and is available as open source since January 2015.[7] The source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub.[8]

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

Features

Some Orleans features include:[9]

The Electronic Arts BioWare division created Project Orbit. It is a Java implementation of virtual actors that was heavily inspired by the Orleans project.[12][13]

See also

References
  1. "Tags · dotnet/orleans · GitHub". GitHub Orleans repository. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  2. 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. Orleans at Microsoft | .NET Conf 2020
  6. Microsoft opens early adopter program for its 'Orleans' cloud framework | ZDNet
  7. Microsoft to make Halo 4 gaming cloud engine Project Orleans open source - SiliconANGLE
  8. https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/blob/master/LICENSE
  9. Introduction | Microsoft Orleans Documentation
  10. Resurrecting Middle-Tier Distributed Transactions | Microsoft Research
  11. Distributed Transactions are dead, long live distributed transactions! | Reactive Summit 2018
  12. https://github.com/orbit/orbit-legacy/wiki
  13. Gamasutra: Creating scalable backends for games using open source Orleans framework

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