Awesome Orleans

A collection of awesome things in the Microsoft Orleans ecosystem.

Documentation

• Orleans Docs - Official documentation.

Community

• Discord - Orleans discord server.
• @msftorleans - Orleans twitter account.
• OrleansContrib - Orleans Contrib organisation on GitHub.
• Orleans Meetups - A repository to organise virtual meetups to discuss Orleans and other distributed systems programming on .NET

Example Projects

• Orleans Heroes - sample app.
• Orleans.Tournament - Orleans sample with clustering, implicit stream handling, authentication, authorization, websockets.
• Orleans.Security - Authorization library for Microsoft Orleans
• HanBaoBao - A Mandarin/English bilingual dictionary built with a VueJS Web frontend, demonstrating Kubernetes deployment on AKS
• Orleans Silo + Client on Azure App Service - This repository contains a simple solution with an Orleans Silo and an Orleans Client project.
• Orleans Silo + Client on Azure Container Apps - This repository contains a simple solution with an Orleans Silo and an Orleans Client project.
• Dotnet-Boxed Orleans Template - Orleans project template with batteries included, providing the minimum amount of code required to get you going.

Learning

• Modules on Microsoft Learn - Orleans learning modules on Microsoft Learn.
• Road to Orleans - Practical, real-life examples from basic to more advanced techniques.
• Pluralsight Course - Introduction to Microsoft Orleans Pluralsight Course.
• Udemy Course - Complete Microsoft Orleans .NET: From Zero to Hero

Providers

• Orleans.Redis - Persistence and Clustering providers for Orleans
• Orleans.CosmosDB - Orleans providers for Azure Cosmos DB
• Orleans.Providers.MongoDB - A MongoDb providers for Membership, Storage and Reminders.
• Orleans.Clustering.Kubernetes - Orleans Membership provider for Kubernetes
• Orleans.Providers.RabbitMQ - Orleans providers for RabbitMQ.
• Orleans.TelemetryConsumers.Datadog - Orleans integration package for Datadog.
• Orleans.Providers.EntityFramework - An Entity Framework Core implementation of Orleans Grain Storage.
• Orleans.Streams.Kafka - An implementation of a PersistentStreamProvider for Microsoft Orleans and Kafka using the Confluent API.
• Orleans.Streaming.Grains - Fast streaming provider that enables queue persistance via all Grain Storage providers. This enables Persistent Streams on premises.

Monitoring

• OrleansDashboard - A monitoring dashboard for Microsoft Orleans

Testing

• OrleansTestKit - Unit Test Toolkit for Microsoft Orleans

Extensions

• Orleans.SyncWork - write long running CPU bound synchronous work, without becoming overloaded.
• Orleans.Http - An HTTP API for Microsoft Orleans.
• Orleans.Sagas - A distributed saga implementation for Orleans.
• Orleankka - Functional API for Microsoft Orleans
• Orleans.Indexing - Indexing extension for Orleans.
• Orleans.StorageProviderInterceptors - Intercept grain storage provider calls for transparent encryption model state validation, or whatever you can dream up!

Templates

• Orleans.Multiservice - automated code structuring pattern for logical service separation within a Microsoft Orleans (micro)service.

Projects built on Orleans

• SignalR.Orleans - SignalR backend based on Orleans.
• Trool.io - A tech stack for Domain Driven Design with CQRS and Event Sourcing.
• Web Scheduler - A general scheduler supporting a variety of triggers.
• Message Silo - A platform to auto-correct your dead-lettered messages and make integration simpler for event-driven systems. Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, and more...
• OrleanSpaces - A virtual, fully-asynchronous, Tuple Space implementation backed by Orleans.
• Orleans.SignalR - SignalR for Orleans, base on Streams, with all functions, including calling client methods and getting results.

Publications

• Orleans Reseach Paper - Orleans: Distributed Virtual Actors for Programmability and Scalability
• Transactions Technical Report - Transactions for Distributed Actors in the Cloud

Books

• Introducing Microsoft Orleans: Implementing Cloud-Native Services with a Virtual Actor Framework - by Thomas Nelson.
• Microsoft Orleans for Developers: Build Cloud-Native, High-Scale, Distributed Systems in .NET Using Orleans - by Richard Astbury.
• Distributed .NET with Microsoft Orleans: Build robust and highly scalable distributed applications without worrying about complex programming patterns - by Suneel Kumar Kunani and Bhupesh Guptha.

Videos

• .NET Conf 2022 - How Halo, Dynamics 365, and Mesh scale to millions with Orleans and you can too!
• J on the Beach 2022 - Beyond FaaS: Stateful, Scalable, & Scrutable Cloud Apps with Orleans by Reuben Bond
• Microsoft LunchBytes - Build Cloud Native High-Scale Apps with Microsoft Orleans