More succinct Cluster Sharding section

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Arnout Engelen 2017-04-03 15:57:54 +02:00
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### Cluster Sharding
Persistence solves the problem of restoring an actors state from persistent storage after system restart or crash.
It does not solve itself the problem of distributing a set of such actors among members of an Akka cluster.
Sharding helps to solve the problem of distributing a set of actors among members of an Akka cluster.
Sharding is a pattern that mostly used together with Persistence to balance a large set of persistent entities
(backed by actors) to members of a cluster and also migrate them to other systems if one of the members crash.
(backed by actors) to members of a cluster and also migrate them to other nodes when members crash or leave.
The problem space that Sharding targets: