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Apache Pulsar in Action
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Apache Pulsar in Action

by David Kjerrumgaard
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 27m
English
Manning Publications
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1 Introduction to Apache Pulsar

This chapter covers

  • The evolution of the enterprise messaging system

  • A comparison of Apache Pulsar to existing enterprise messaging systems

  • How Pulsar’s segment-centric storage differs from the partition-centric storage model used in Apache Kafka

  • Real-world use cases where Pulsar is used for stream processing, and why you should consider using Apache Pulsar

Developed by Yahoo! in 2013, Pulsar was first open sourced in 2016, and only 15 months after joining the Apache Software Foundation’s incubation program, it graduated to top-level project status. Apache Pulsar was designed from the ground up to address the gaps in current open source messaging systems, such as multi-tenancy, geo-replication, and strong ...

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