Microsoft Orleans for Developers

Use a simple programming model and the .NET language of your choice to build large distributed systems. This book teaches you the Microsoft Orleans framework. Even well-versed professional software developers with expertise in C# (or another language) find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges of distributed systems as infrastructure moves to multi-core; multiple computers are being used for scale, redundancy, and cloud computing; and multi-region deployment is taking place. Orleans handles many of the concerns of distributed computing and cloud infrastructure, allowing you to concentrate on writing application logic. What You Will Learn Know the key concepts for building distributed systems Gain a background in the origin and evolution of Orleans, and why it is important for your projects Dive into each of the features available in Orleans by building an example application Develop troubleshooting skills for fixing bugs and running diagnostics Achieve performance optimization and advanced configuration Use the Orleans Dashboard to discern valuable insight in system performance Who This Book Is For Experienced C# developers who want to build a new high-scale application (perhaps for an IoT requirement) and are interested in learning the concepts and features available in Orleans