Re: [akka-user] Cluster Sharding Proxy vs Cluster Client

2015-11-16 Thread Patrik Nordwall
Cluster Client is for communication between two different clusters. You can put the frontend nodes in one cluster and backend nodes in one cluster and use Cluster Client from frontend to backend. However, it's easier and the tooling is richer if you use one cluster with different backend/frontend

[akka-user] Cluster Sharding Proxy vs Cluster Client

2015-11-12 Thread Artyom Bolshakov
When should I use Cluster Sharding Proxy and when Cluster Client? I have a backend with sharded actors and HTTP frontend which provide interface for them. The operations mostly fire-and-forget semantics, so HTTP frontend does not return any data to user, but just proxy notifications to sharded