Pearls: Microsoft Orleans Reader and different binary inputs

Microsoft Orleans is a project that originates from Microsoft Research. It implements a virtual actor model and allows you to write scalable distributed applications. Every distributed system usually has to address a few similar problems like work scheduling or data storage. Beside that, it needs to have a protocol to communicate between the nodes. To have a protocol implemented, it needs to be able to write and read messages in an efficient manner. Let’s take a look at some of the serialization aspects of Orleans then and see one of the design pearls.