Ryan Karg
About
Ryan Karg is Associate Director, Architecture with two decades of experience at Blizzard Entertainment, specializing in scalable infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions. With deep experience in Kubernetes, platform engineering, and .NET systems he leads architectural initiatives that span modern services and legacy workloads. Ryan is passionate about developer experience, platform resilience, system observability, and sleeping through the night without getting paged.
Sessions at .NET Conf 2026
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
vendredi, novembre 13
3:30 PM - 4 PM PST
Rethinking Microservices with Orleans
Ryan Karg
What if how you structure an application didn't have to dictate how you deploy it? Traditional microservice architectures often treat architectural separation and physical distribution as the same problem. Orleans takes a different approach, allowing applications to be implemented as loosely coupled components while keeping deployment topology flexible. In this session, we'll draw on our experience building game backends and other services with Orleans to explore how systems can evolve from a single process to multi-cluster and multi-region deployments without changing the underlying programming model. We'll discuss the realities of latency in globally distributed systems and along the way examine how Orleans can reduce communication costs, simplify operations, and challenge common assumptions about microservice design.
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