[reubenbond]

> I was watching a talk from Microsoft on the topic where they would refer to actors as “cloud native objects” and the model itself as an ideal way to do OOP on distributed systems. The marketing feels a little cringe at first but the mental model works well.

Was that my Orleans Deep Dive video? https://youtu.be/R0ODfwU6MzQ

I started referring to Grains as Cloud Native Objects as a way to better convey them to people who aren't familiar already. My view is that Grains are different enough from Erlang/Akka style actors that lumping them under the Actor terminology can cause confusion. In the research publications, the term Virtual Actor is coined, which better describes them.

That video doesn't discuss it, but Orleans also supports distributed cross-actor ACID transactions, largely thanks to Phil Bernstein: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/transac... and more recently https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/resurre....