I can't figure out how to share my service registrations between my test code that uses Orleans and the test code that is outside of Orleans. I've spent days trying to figure this out. My unit test...

I have a Orleans 7.0 project with and I'm having an issue with the new default serializer. The old serializer in Orleans 3.6.5 worked fine and it was serializing all the models and Dtos in the seve...

I was looking at virtual Actors and I pumped into Dapr and Orleans. I understand that Dapr is a more complete framework to build a microservices architecture, where virtual actors are just one part...

I am attempting to publish an Azure cloud service. Approximately 1 hour after beginning publishing, it returns this error. I am publishing through Visual Studio 2013 ultimate. I am attempting to c...

Hi I'm in the early stage of choosing an actor framework for a project I'm about to start. As far as I know Orleans was meant to relief the developer of as much pain as possible, at cost of some pe...

We have recently started testing Cosmos DB as a persistent storage for our Orleans Cluster. Our scenario for Cosmos DB is as a Key-Value Store with low-latency and a high amount of Replace, Point R...

I'm new in Microsoft Orleans and when reading the documentation I found this : ... Grain persistence uses an extensible plugin model so that storage providers for any database can be used. This pe...

In erlang you can pass initial state to actor when spawning it. This way you don't need to deal with init messages which take actor to it's initial state again or messages needing init message arri...

I have three grains (A, B and C) doing different jobs in a pipeline. GrainA will pass the result to grainB, and grainB will pass the result to grainC. I want to guarantee sequential message sending...

I apologize for the long question. I have been experimenting with Orleans to know about its various properties and these questions are logically under one umbrella. The first test involved maki...

I am running Orleans in localHost Clustering mode and currently have 1 grain and a client. // client code for (int i = 0; i <num_scan; ++i) { Console.WriteLine("client " + i); // the below c...

I’m looking for some guidance that will help to design a “chaos monkey” testing approach for Orleans cluster. I’m new on that, so what I can think is a script that can randomly restart silo’s, st...

How do you check if a grain exists already for a particular Id? Considering the below will create a new player grain with the Id I pass into GetGrain() if it doesn't exist, I am not sure how to ch...

Please, point me out if there are any direct methods to run Orleans hosted within Windows Service. If there are no direct methods, then are there any indirect methods of doing that? Thank you in ...

I have read in Orleans FAQ when split-brain could happen but I don't understand what bad can happen and how to handle it properly. FAQ says something vague like: You just need to consider the r...

I'm not sure how or where to inject dependencies into a Grain. Where's the best place to do this? If it's not possible, should I set up a container in the WorkerRole.Run method and get instances a...

The Azure Service Fabric appears to be focused on scenarios in which all data can fit within RAM and persistence is used as a backing store. Reliable Services are designed to store information in R...

I was wondering what is the best practice for using log4net in Microsoft Orleans? Where should it be initialized?

I wonder if this is too a broad question, but recently I made myself to come across a piece of code I'd like to be certain on how to translate from C# into proper F#. The journey starts from here (...