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Introduction to Akka Cluster Sharding

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020Akka, Studio-ScalaAkka, akka-cluster, akka-cluster-sharding, cluster sharding, shard region, sharding

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

Scale Out with Cluster Sharding

January 6, 2020Akka, cluster, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsAkka, cluster sharding, scale out, shard region, sharding

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.