Articles about Cluster Sharding by Oleg Dmytriienko, architect of distributed and agentic systems.
Part 2 of rebuilding Effect TS Cluster's DadBot with Pekko Cluster: Dad waits for the chat to go quiet, the cluster grows to three nodes, and two very different answers to the question of who decides where a Dad lives.
Part 1 of rebuilding Effect TS Cluster's DadBot with Pekko Cluster Sharding: why the naive webhook handler repeats jokes, and what changes when every chat gets its own sharded entity.