> I'm not clear on how you actually do that with OPA
The sharding is managed from the OPAL control plane, when you configure the data sources you also configure the way the sharding works.
> ensure consistency in your application since hydrating the cache is asynchronous.
OPAL use eventual consistency for cache reliability, you can know that data has changed, even before you know what changed.
> ensure consistency in your application since hydrating the cache is asynchronous. OPAL use eventual consistency for cache reliability, you can know that data has changed, even before you know what changed.