Can you compare and contrast other clustering technologies, such as Kubernetes, with Akka Cluster?
Akka Cluster and Kubernetes are both clustering technologies, but they serve different purposes and operate at different levels of abstraction.
Akka Cluster is a toolkit for building distributed, fault-tolerant systems using the Actor model. It focuses on managing actor-based applications within a cluster, providing location transparency, automatic sharding, and failure recovery. Akka Cluster is language-specific (Scala/Java) and tightly integrated with the Akka framework.
Kubernetes, on the other hand, is a container orchestration platform that manages the deployment, scaling, and operation of containerized applications across multiple nodes. It provides features like load balancing, rolling updates, and self-healing. Kubernetes is language-agnostic and works with any application packaged in containers.
