Actor Models with MS Orleans and ASP.NET Core 8 (Blazor and Web API)

• MS Orleans:
  • https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

Deployment Model: Azure Cloud

1. Solution

• Actor Models with MS Orleans (7.0.0) and ASP.NET Core 8 Blazor (.NET 8)

2. References

• The following PoC has been done by using Microsoft source code examples as reference:

  • MS Orleans eShop:

    • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/deployment/
    • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/deployment/deploy-to-azure-app-service

  • GPSTracker with Orleans:

    • https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/dotnet/samples/orleans-gps-device-tracker-sample/

  • Shoppining Cart with Orleans:

    • https://github.com/dotnet/samples/tree/main/orleans/ShoppingCart
      • The following open3rd party-source projects are using regarding Blazor
        • MudBlazor: Blazor Component Library based on Material design
          • https://github.com/MudBlazor/MudBlazor): .
        • Blazorators: Source-generated packages for Blazor JavaScript interop
          • https://github.com/IEvangelist/blazorators)

  • eShop with new ASP.NET Core 8 Blazor:

    • https://github.com/dotnet/eshop

  • MS Orleans on Azure Cloud:

    • https://github.com/bradygaster/OrleansOnAzureContainerApps
    • https://github.com/bradygaster/OrleansOnAzureAppService

  • MS Orleans Dashborad:

    • https://github.com/OrleansContrib/OrleansDashboard/

  3. Actor Model

  • 3.1 Actor Model pattern

    • Actor Model => Conceptual model of concurrent computation (from 1973)
    • Actor => Fundamental unit of computaion; it has a private state
      • Allowed operations:
        • create another Actor
        • send a message
        • designnate how to handle the next message

  • 3.2 Links

  • https://blog.softwaremill.com/actor-model-and-event-sourcing-aa00993d2f1e

  • https://finematics.com/actor-model-explained/

  • https://www.theserverside.com/blog/Coffee-Talk-Java-News-Stories-and-Opinions/How-the-Actor-Model-works-by-example

  • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/applied-akka-patterns/9781491934876/ch01.html

  • Drinking a river of IoT data with Akka NET - Hannes Lowette - NDC Oslo 2021

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Q837IX6M0

  • https://akshantalpm.github.io/Actor-Model-For-IoT/

  • https://stately.ai/blog/what-is-the-actor-model

4. Current solution