Consistently handling network partitions and split-brain scenarios in Akka

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It looks like akka.cluster.split-brain-resolver is a paid-for feature. (I got that impression from this line in the docs):

This is a feature of the Typesafe Reactive Platform that is exclusively available for Typesafe Project Success Subscription customers.

Does this mean I'm going to have to pay to have a strategy for handling network partitions that result in a split-brain, or is there a way to handle network partitions that is available open-source?

I have a cluster singleton that I want to be running on whichever partition has the majority of nodes connected in a dynamically scaling cluster.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '16 at 20:27

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Yes, Split Brain Resolver require Typesafe reactive Platform subsciption for production usage

https://www.lightbend.com/blog/how-to-handle-network-partitions-decisively-with-akka-split-brain-resolver

answered Dec 06 '16 at 20:27

mgosk

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The crux of the question was more on the "is there a way to handle network partitions that is available open-source" side – jackweirdy Dec 06 '16 at 23:28
Sorry, But I don't know any ready open-source SBR implementation – mgosk Dec 07 '16 at 09:23

Consistently handling network partitions and split-brain scenarios in Akka

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