Preface

Building distributed applications in the modern era can be a tedious task, as customers expect high availability, high performance, and improved resilience. With the help of this book, you'll discover how you can harness the power of Microsoft Orleans to build impressive distributed applications.

Distributed .NET with Microsoft Orleans will demonstrate how to leverage Orleans to build highly scalable distributed applications step by step in the least possible time and with minimal effort. You'll explore Microsoft Orleans' key concepts such as the Orleans programming model, runtime, virtual actor, hosting, and deployment. As you advance, you'll become well-versed with important Orleans concepts such as grains, silos, timers, and persistence. Throughout the book, you'll create an application that will help you explore and learn Microsoft Orleans.