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What if you could build the next Facebook or Twitter with just a few hundred lines of code ? and scale it to hundreds of millions of users across thousands of servers, right out of the box? Orleans is a cloud programming model and runtime from Microsoft Research, which can make this the new "norm".

Orleans is a software framework for building 'client + cloud' applications. It encourages the use of simple concurrency patterns that are easy to understand and implement correctly, with an actor-like programming model for distributed applications. It uses declarative specification of persistence, replication, and consistency properties, as well as lightweight transactions to support the development of reliable and scalable 'client + cloud' applications.

Bio: Gabriel Kliot a Research Software Development Engineer in the eXtreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research. He's been working on Orleans since its early days. Gabriel also leads project Horton: a distributed database for managing and querying large distributed graphs. Gabriel obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Technion in 2009, where his thesis focused on Probabilistic Middleware Services for Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, as well as other various aspects of Distributed Systems. In his spare time Gabriel is a competitive long-distance runner.