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Anyone searching for a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform
About Apache Pulsar
Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform originally created at Yahoo! and now a top-level Apache Software Foundation project. Easy to deploy, lightweight compute process, developer-friendly APIs, no need to run your own stream processing engine. Run in production at Yahoo! scale for over 5 years, with millions of messages per second across millions of topics. Built from the ground up as a multi-tenant system. Supports isolation, authentication, authorization and quotas. Configurable replication between data centers across multiple geographic regions. Persistent message storage based on Apache BookKeeper. IO-level isolation between write and read operations. Rest admin API for provisioning, administration, tools and monitoring.
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Apache Software Foundation
Founded: 1999
United States
pulsar.apache.org
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