From d17728ee690a1b8b96023cdbbb49a62cb5e30ed4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnout Engelen Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:57:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More succinct Cluster Sharding section --- akka-docs-new/src/main/paradox/guide/modules.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/akka-docs-new/src/main/paradox/guide/modules.md b/akka-docs-new/src/main/paradox/guide/modules.md index d74cc7ffb8..6d5f96dfeb 100644 --- a/akka-docs-new/src/main/paradox/guide/modules.md +++ b/akka-docs-new/src/main/paradox/guide/modules.md @@ -59,10 +59,9 @@ The problems the Cluster module solves (among others) are ### Cluster Sharding -Persistence solves the problem of restoring an actor’s 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: