Technology: Akka

Akka Cluster Sharding: Introduction

December 14, 2022December 19, 2022Studio-ScalaAkka, akka-cluster-sharding, cluster sharding, scala, sharding

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

How to Schedule Messages or Tasks in Akka?

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022Akka, scala, Studio-ScalaAkka, akka-actors, akka-scheduler, scala

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog, we’ll see how to schedule sending of messages to actors or execution of tasks(functions or Runnable) at a specific point of time in future or maybe repeatedly over a certain interval. For this purpose, the Akka ActorSystem provides Akka Scheduler to manage the periodic execution of tasks. Akka Scheduler In simple words, the Akka Scheduler helps us to schedule sending of messages Continue Reading