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by eropple 3629 days ago
Orleans is a similar the same thing to Akka.NET, but its design goals are kind of reversed from Akka's in that it's designed first for non-expert users to build distributed systems. Akka gives you the whole toolbox, and you figure it out from there. Orleans is rather more opinionated and, while it has similar features and concepts to Akka, it has an easier "happy path" for building scalable systems using it.

I'm not sure claims to Akka.NET's maturity hold water relative to Orleans. Akka proper has a lot of miles on it, but so does Orleans, and I'm not sure Akka.NET is as heavily tested and stressed as Orleans.
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brianwawok 3628 days ago
Can non expert users actually build distributed systems? I mean they can start it, but will it actually give correct results and scale and handle concurrency concerns?
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eropple 3628 days ago
I can't speak to it at Very Large Scales, but I've seen non-experts do pretty well with Akka when strong guardrails are put in place by seasoned developers. No reason to think that Orleans (which I've studied but not used heavily, though that might change with CoreCLR) couldn't pre-bake that a bit. I mean, eventually that sort of thing will fall down, but almost anything will.
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