Microsoft Orleans with Richard Astbury
Carl and Richard chat with Richard Astbury about the Microsoft Research project known as Orleans. Orleans brings the Actor model of development to C# - the Actor model is typically found in functional languages, but you can write functional C#, so why not? Richard talks about Orleans being used to run Halo 4, where hundreds of thousands of players connected with each other between hundreds of Azure instances. Orleans was officially released into the wild at Microsoft Build. Looking at scalable software strategies? Take a look at Orleans!
Guests:
Richard Astbury
Richard Astbury helps software businesses around Europe migrate their applications to the cloud. He works with a wide variety of companies, ranging from the smallest startups to the largest software businesses in the world, and specializes in moving applications that were never designed to run in the cloud, utilise the Windows Azure platform. Richard is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure, and Senior Consultant at Two10 Degrees. He is often found developing open source software in C# and Node.js, and lives in rural Suffolk, UK with his wife and two children.
Links:
- Fun with C# and HP Laserjets http://odetocode.com/articles/68.aspx
- MSR Orleans Project http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/
- MQ Telemetry Transport http://mqtt.org/
- Andy Smith's 5K Dream Prize http://dotnetrocks.com/images/AndySmithsPrize.jpg