If you are new to the Virtual Actor model and you want to learn Orleans, the open source actor framework built by Microsoft research, I can recommend the following blog series by Russel Hammett Jr:
- Getting Started with Microsoft Orleans
- Microsoft Orleans — Reusing Grains and Grain State
- Updating Orleans Project to be more ready for new Orleans Examples!
- Microsoft Orleans — Reporting Dashboard
- Microsoft Orleans — Code Generation Issue?
- Microsoft Orleans - Dependency Injection
- Microsoft Orleans — Reminders and grains calling grains
- Microsoft Orleans — Easily switching between “development” and “production” configurations.
- Microsoft Orleans — Observers
- Microsoft Orleans - Dashboard Update — CPU/Memory Stats