Reuben Bond

@Xanatus Thank you, good suggestion

I think the abstractions are a little mismatched for this at the moment. There's a divide between new networking stack (which extends up to messaging/serialization) and the old stack. The...

Could you share some code samples of what you're doing with me so I can better understand?

To be clear, we removed the ProtoBuf serializer in 4.x since we completely replaced the serializer with a much higher performance (and version tolerant) alternative. The new serializer does give...

We could add a support package for protocol buffers. We have one for System.Text.Json and Newtonsoft.Json. It's not much difficulty to add one, but we need to have a customer...

I'd suggest taking a look at how the existing delegated serializers work. They follow a particular pattern. I can help you with it ([Discord](https://aka.ms/orleans-discord) would be the fastest way to...

Yes, it should. If a scope is created then we must dispose it. Thank you for investigating! Are you able to open a PR to fix this?

xref #940 & #1916

Adding a way to configure the serializer for this provider (and eventually others) would be a welcome contribution

It's unclear to me what would you do with the raw `DbConnection`, and why not go all the way and provide your own implementation of `IGrainStorage`? I imagined something more...