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Does some of that sounds familiar? If you’re a programmer, it should. While it’s not a duplicate of Apache Kafka, which is usually used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps, sometimes Pulsar is better. As Jim Jagielski tweeted, “Apache Pulsar is not only more performant that Apache Kafka, but makes it super easy to increase partition size and/or duration. Been bitten by this a few times :).”
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He’s not the only one who likes Pulsar as a drop-in Kafka replacement. InfoWorld just awarded Pulsar its 2018 Best of Open Source Software award for databases and data analytics. It wrote, “Pulsar offers the potential of faster throughput and lower latency in many situations, along with a compatible API that allows developers to switch from Kafka to Pulsar with relative ease.”
“Launching Pulsar at Yahoo in 2015, our goal has always been to make Pulsar widely used and well-integrated with other large-scale open source software,” said Joe Francis, Oath’s Director of Storage and Messaging. It looks like he’ll see his goal realized.
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