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 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: 3 minutes If your actors are distributed across several nodes in the cluster, Cluster Sharding allows you to interact with them without worrying about their physical location and using only their logical identifier. Even if an actor re-locates to a new node, Akka will take care of locating it for you. You just need to send a message to it as if it is located on your local node.
