Many growing platforms face similar challenges as their user base expands:
For these scenarios, the Managed Code team applies Microsoft Orleans — a .NET framework for building scalable distributed systems.
This approach enables systems that scale horizontally, manage workloads automatically, and maintain stability even under heavy load.
The client’s platform encountered issues typical for high-growth systems:
Our engineers implemented an architecture based on Microsoft Orleans using the actor model — where independent objects (“actors” or grains) handle specific parts of the system.
This model provided full process isolation, simplified concurrency, and enabled seamless horizontal scaling.
Orleans dynamically activates grains only when needed, keeping resource usage optimal.In benchmark environments, grains processed over 40 000 events per second on small Azure VMs, maintaining consistent latency.
The system supports horizontal scaling — adding servers increases capacity without changing the codebase.
Each grain in Orleans follows a single-threaded execution model, eliminating the need for locks and race-condition handling.
This guarantees data consistency with minimal synchronization overhead and simpler logic.
Thanks to Orleans’ asynchronous messaging, grains communicate directly and efficiently.
Even under heavy parallel loads, message passing remains fast, resulting in significantly lower response times and improved user experience.
The solution was deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and seamless scaling.
Using Microsoft Orleans allows us to build systems that are scalable, resilient, and efficient to maintain.
For our clients, it means less downtime, faster data processing, and growth without architectural constraints.