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Orleans

Event Sourced Orleans Grain

I always thought a Event Sourced Orleans Grain would fit a really well as a stateful Aggregate Root.  Take it a step further and have your Grain be event sourced and also encapsulate a projection of current state.  This post is going to setup the basics of how to Raise events and apply them in our Grain state.  I will be covering persisting the events in the next post. Blog Post Series: Part 1 – Practical Orleans Part 2 – Grains and Silos Part 3 – Smart Cache Pattern Part 4 – Event Sourced Grain Part 5 – EventStore for… Read More »Event Sourced Orleans Grain

Orleans Smart Cache Pattern

I discovered the Orleans Smart Cache Pattern by listening to a talk by John Azariah and Sergey Bykov.  The idea is that you can use Orleans as a distributed cache in front of (permanent) storage.  This is really ideal if you have a read heavy system, which most are.  You could optionally also choose to buffer your writes when you make state changes.  Ultimately you will reduce load on your storage by accessing data/state from memory. Blog Post Series: Part 1 – Practical Orleans Part 2 – Grains and Silos Part 3 – Smart Cache Pattern Part 4 – Event Sourced… Read More »Orleans Smart Cache Pattern

Microsoft Orleans Tutorial: Grains and Silos

This is the first post in the series were I’m actually getting into some code.  You will be able to follow along the journey of creating a practical web application using Microsoft Orleans.  This first post is really just setting the ground level to get familiar with the basics of Grains and Silos.  By the end of this post I’ll have a simple demo app that is a functioning ASP.NET Core as our client/frontend with a Orleans Silo hosting our Grains. Blog Post Series: Part 1 – Practical Orleans Part 2 – Grains and Silos Part 3 – Smart Cache… Read More »Microsoft Orleans Tutorial: Grains and Silos