@techreport{bykov2010orleans,
author = {Bykov, Sergey and Geller, Alan and Kliot, Gabriel and Larus, Jim and Pandya, Ravi and Thelin, Jorgen},
title = {Orleans: A Framework for Cloud Computing},
year = {2010},
month = {November},
abstract = {Client + cloud computing is a disruptive, new computing platform, combining diverse client devices – PCs, smartphones, sensors, and single-function and embedded devices – with the unlimited, on-demand computation and data storage offered by cloud computing services such as Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft’s Windows Azure. As with every advance in computing, programming is a fundamental challenge as client + cloud computing combines many difficult aspects of software development.

Orleans is a software framework for building client + cloud applications. Orleans encourages use of simple concurrency patterns that are easy to understand and implement correctly, building on an actor-like model with declarative specification of persistence, replication, and consistency and using lightweight transactions to support the development of reliable and scalable client + cloud software.},
publisher = {Microsoft Research},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/orleans-a-framework-for-cloud-computing/},
number = {MSR-TR-2010-159},
note = {Superseded by SOCC '12 publication. Please read and cite that publication.
},
}