Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog, we will learn the basics of Akka Cluster Sharding which will include what Sharding and Cluster Sharding is and their basic components. So, let’s get started. What is Sharding? The term Sharding means Partitioning. Sharding basically helps the system to keep data in different resources like memory after dividing it into different parts. Here in this section, I will explain Sharding in Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog we will be discussing about one of the important feature of Akka Cluster Sharding which is Rebalancing. Before moving forward make sure you have some basic knowledge on Akka Cluster Sharding, if not then please read Introduction to Akka Cluster Sharding and Implementing Akka Cluster Sharding. Before directly diving into this amazing feature which akka sharding provides, lets first understand the need Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now that we have a basic understanding of Akka Cluster Sharding in my previous blog. Let’s have a look at how we are going to implement this and what are the things that we need to keep in our mind while doing that. To shard a specific type of actor we use the cluster sharding akka extension, and we call it as start, we can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we think of sharding or partitioning it’s typically related to databases. Databases uses sharding to improve resilience and elasticity. The Akka Toolkit provides Cluster Sharding as a way to introduce sharding in your application. Instead of distributing database records across a cluster, we’re distributing actors across nodes in the cluster, and it enables running at most one instance of a given actor at any Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes In our previous blog post, Manually Healing an Akka Cluster, we have already seen that if we do not handle the failures in an Akka Cluster carefully, then it can lead to disastrous situations like Split Brain. Hence, in this blog post we will learn more about the consequences of the Split Brain problem. What is Split Brain? Split Brain is a destructive condition of Continue Reading
