Contribution idea: Add support for Bond/Avro/other serialization

[sergeybykov]

One way to support Bond is to allow to use it optionally in addition to the built-in Orleans-generated serializers, similar to custom serializers. That way code that already uses Bond could work with Orleans.
The solution will probably need to add a message header to indicate serializer used
Will be less automatic than the built-in option but compatible with non-.NET clients
Explore other ways to use Bond.

[robrodi]

That sounds lovely.

[veikkoeeva]

I'll add Simple Binary Encoding here too as it's used in low-latency financial Trading and may prove to be useful. This is like a continuation to the Codeplex thread where I ditched some haphazard ideas (I blame myself for not being able to engage in more thoroughly currently, but maybe sharing these is better than not). This touches upon #38 as in Codeplex there's a link to MBrace and code serialization which may be a useful idea.

<edit:

I noticed the Bing team has released a library to pool MemoryStream objects to improve performance. I see there's only one place where MemoryStream is used.

Perhaps this is interesting in the larger serialization context and when taking a look at ByteArrayBuilder and BufferPool and thinking if there are places that could make use of MemoryStream types with this.

[MovGP0]

missing links:

• Microsoft Bond
• Apache Avro
• Google Protocol Buffers .

[gabikliot]

Looks like that was implemented via #953?

[veikkoeeva]

@gabikliot As far as I see, that is the case.

[sergeybykov]

Yes, the generic solution that @Carlm-MS put together also covers non-Bond cases.