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Distributed Execution with Microsoft Orleans

A practical architecture for isolating stateful workloads while scaling execution safely.

Model around ownership

Orleans grains offer a useful boundary: one logical owner for each strategy or account-level concern. This reduces accidental concurrency while keeping activation and placement decisions outside business logic.

Reliability needs explicit policy

Virtual actors do not remove operational design. Idempotency, durable state, retries, backpressure, observability, and exchange-specific failure handling remain product requirements.

Scale follows isolation

Good boundaries allow workloads to move and scale independently. More importantly, one misbehaving strategy should not compromise unrelated execution.

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