Simplified Scaling: Managing High Traffic with Cluster Sharding

We are delighted to announce that Amusnet Gaming will host our upcoming meetup on "Simplified Scaling: Managing High Traffic with Cluster Sharding" at its headquarters. Attendees will enjoy complimentary drinks and pizza, making it a perfect opportunity to learn and network in a welcoming environment.

In the world of distributed systems, managing concurrency and ensuring efficient distribution of load across horizontally scaled architectures poses significant challenges. Traditional approaches relying on shared memory and locking mechanisms, which introduce complexities that often lead to bottlenecks, race conditions, and hard-to-debug issues. These approaches struggle to deliver the scalability, resilience, and performance demanded by modern, high-traffic applications.

This session will explore cluster sharding as an elegant solution to these challenges, focusing on Apache Pekko Cluster Sharding. By isolating entities, eliminating the need for a shared state, and dynamically distributing the workload across nodes in a cluster, sharding allows developers to manage high-volume systems with reduced complexity and greater fault tolerance.

Agenda:

• 18:00 – 18:30: Arrival and Networking
• 18:30 – 19:10: Featured Talk: Scaling Simplified: Managing High Traffic with Cluster Sharding
• 19:10 – 19:20: Q&A Session
• 19:20 – 20:00: Networking, Drinks & Pizza