Introduction to project Orleans for your distributed applications

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Orleans replaces the SQL backend with Azure Blob Storage JSON documents per grain and runs grains (players, robots, arena, script, validator) inside silos that scale on AKS/Kubernetes. A separate gRPC validation silos cluster compiles and sandboxed-runs player C# every two seconds; demo shows ~72 players and ~40 robots with grains spread across six silos and activations moving as replicas change. Timers need external pings to avoid garbage collection; script grains use prefer-local placement to keep in-memory communication fast.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:29About me
3. 1:57Backstory
4. 3:06C Script
5. 3:40Architecture
6. 7:47Virtual Actors
7. 10:31Deploy a robot
8. 12:04Testing
9. 14:12Grain Model
10. 15:47Orleans Dashboard
11. 17:17Orleans Cluster
12. 19:41Define your grains
13. 24:58Silos
14. 26:53Grains
15. 30:33Timers
16. 34:46Heterogeneous silos
17. 37:45Docker containers
18. 41:15Host code
19. 44:45Debugging
20. 48:45Garbage Collecting
21. 51:25State Async
22. 55:15Cleanup

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