The Orleans framework has taken the "Actor Model" concept to build reactive , event-driven, middleware framework that allows the building of scalable, high-throughput, low-latency and highly available systems. All are difficult goals to meet with the traditional stateless 3-tier architecture or managed container based micro-services. Orleans uses the Actor Model to raise the abstraction level that decouples the business logic from the low-level constructs of such systems allowing the developer to focus on application logic. In this tech talk I'll explain and share my 2yrs experience with Orleans.