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...As such, it helps developers experienced with single-server applications transition to building resilient, scalable cloud services and other distributed applications. For this reason, Orleans has often been referred to as "Distributed .NET". It was created by Microsoft Research and introduced the Virtual Actor Model as a novel approach to building a new generation of distributed systems for the Cloud era. The core contribution of Orleans is its programming model which tames the complexity inherent to highly-parallel distributed systems without restricting capabilities or imposing onerous constraints.

...You can also manage your Netflix queued movies right in the application, allowing for adding, deleting, moving the location in your queue, and start “Instant Watching” movies when applicable. You can lookup all associated movies to an actor from another movie and add them to your screen with a click of a button.

A virtual world engine writen by C# Provide network,serialization,thread management,work flow,cluster management,RPC etc.It's designed for concurrency. For performance, it doesn't use lock to resolve conflicts, otherwise it use queues.