It's only the first node in the seed nodes list that is special. It's only
that one that will join itself to bootstrap the cluster, after it has tried
joining the other nodes.
Sorting is fine.
For the AWS part you might get something from this blog post:
http://chrisloy.net/2014/05/11/akka-cluste
Hi, when discovering seed nodes dynamically, why is it important for every
node (except for one) to not include itself in the seed node list? How
could split brain happen if all nodes have the same list order of all seed
nodes?
>From what I understand, split-brain can only happen if multiple n