Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral.

This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar in English 2014 project. Check out all the other great posts there!

Special thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing this.

Modelling game economy with Neo4j from Yan Cui

• Modelling game economy with Neo4j at CodeMesh 14
• My adventure with Elm at NDC London 14

2014 has been a good year, and it ended with a bang! With so many great talks to choose from, here are my top 10 most memorable talks I have attended/watched this year (not in any particular order since they have all taught me something different).