Brady Gaster: Orleans - Episode 221

Brady is a Principal Program Manager on the Azure Developer Experience team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes to make it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!

Topics of Discussion:

[4:17] Moving around a lot gave Brady a lot of insight into all the different ways that we can benefit developers and all the different opportunities we have to make things better.

[6:30] The people in Docs hack all the time.

[7:01] What is Orleans?

[11:40] What’s the best database to use for distributed applications?

[21:10] Open telemetry gives us the capability of being able to trace messages that go from one end of your system all the way to the other end of your system through multiple silos and multiple clients.

[22:08] The three pillars of observability: logging, distributed tracing (which is really where open telemetry shines), and then metrics.

[26:02] How does the traceability side of open telemetry apply to Azure?

[28:02] What else should we know about Orleans?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo’s YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

programming@palermo.network

“Brady Gaster on SignalR and More”

Brady Gaster

Brady Gaster GitHub

Brady Gaster Rock Paper Orleans

Brady Gaster Website

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