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Re:Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful ... by reubenbond on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:40PM (#24618513)
We (Orleans team) also stopped referring to them as actors some time ago for the same reason. The Orleans papers call them Virtual Actors or Grains. Usually, I describe grains as Distributed Objects.
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Re:Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful ... by kentonv on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:59PM (#24618750)
Hah, "Grains" is also what we called them in Sandstorm.io.
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