1) Akka persistence journal provides an event sourcing API and plugins for various databases like Cassandra and Redis. It stores the full history of events for aggregates. 2) The document discusses using Akka persistence with a Redis journal to remember actor identities and allow persistence queries to the journal from multiple JVMs. 3) It provides an example of using Akka persistence to build a scalable application with thousands of actors across many nodes to handle high volumes of events.