Akka cluster integration in allows us to provide distributed services to the Platform. Akka-based services run in their own cluster on SC processes, and can be run separately or together depending on your requirements.

Example of Akka cluster structure

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When shutting down an SC with a running akka cluster, the member is gracefully removed from the cluster, and the cluster continues to function as long as there are nodes left in the cluster. When an SC has an ungraceful shutdown, or a if a network partition occurs, the member becomes unreachable. In this case, the member must become available again or the member must be marked as DOWN. You can down a node using the mzsh akka command. See 2.2.1 akka in the Command Line Tool user's guide and Managing Akka Cluster Failure.

Akka Configuration

It is possible to configure the Akka cluster and the Akka cluster clients. For further information, see Listing of the Reference Configuration in https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4.12/general/configuration.html#config-akka-remote. However if you require to do this, contact  Support.

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