Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding
Yesterday (coincidentally, a few hours before the Akka announcement), we open-sourced Shardcake, a Scala library that makes it easy to distribute entities across multiple servers and interact with those entities using their ID without knowing their actual location (aka location transparency).
Shardcake, a Scala open-source library for entity/actor sharding launched on September 8, 2022 with 6 votes, #1,157 of 3,464 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
Sharding and location transparency for Scala. Contribute to devsisters/shardcake development by creating an account on GitHub.
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