[alexis2b]

Interesting! Not trying to divert from Akka which is a wonderful piece of engineering, but your comment reminded me of Microsoft’s take at the Actor model with Project Orléans - which was used for the backend side of the Halo / XBox MMO [0].

I think the GA version of Project Orléans is now called Service Fabric, although I never had the pleasure to try it.

[0] https://youtu.be/I91ZU8tEJkU

[reubenbond]

Orleans and Service Fabric are different. Orleans has been running in production for some time now and is actively developed on GitHub: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans. Teams inside Microsoft run it on top of Service Fabric (and Kubernetes, etc.) More details in this talk: https://youtu.be/KhgYlvGLv9c

Service Fabric has something called Reliable Actors which are heavily inspired by Orleans.

Source: I'm the project lead for Orleans