I only ran into the Orleans Virtual Actor model a few days ago. I have an application I long wanted to move to a distributed model, and I've been struggling with seemingly to reinvent everything due to an unusual execution model.
So it was quite an eye opener to read about how Orleans introduced Virtual Actors, activations and placements of actors and how these are exactly the things I've thought about over the years. I've read about e.g. the classic Erlang actors, but the concept of virtual actors in Orleans really fit my model.
So it was quite an eye opener to read about how Orleans introduced Virtual Actors, activations and placements of actors and how these are exactly the things I've thought about over the years. I've read about e.g. the classic Erlang actors, but the concept of virtual actors in Orleans really fit my model.
I'll be sticking with Python, but starting with the Orleans paper has lead me to quite a few similar systems: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233416056_Orleans_C... that reference it.