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5 More Reasons to Choose Apache Pulsar Over Apache Kafka

Thu, 05 May 2022 18:11:20 +0000

Author’s note: I originally published this blog post in 2019, while I was CEO of Kesque, a real-time messaging service built on Apache Pulsar , the cloud-native distributed messaging and streaming platform. It’s a follow-up to an earlier post, “ 7 Reasons to Choose Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka .” A lot of big changes have happened since these two posts went live, including Kesque’s acquisition , in January 2021, by DataStax. The reasons to choose Pulsar, however, haven’t changed.

7 Reasons to Choose Apache Pulsar over Apache Kafka

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:03:13 +0000

I wrote an earlier version of this article in 2019, while I was CEO of Kesque, a real-time messaging service built on Apache Pulsar , the cloud-native distributed messaging and streaming platform. A lot of big changes have happened in the interim; perhaps the most significant of these is the fact that the company I founded in early 2019 was acquired , in January, by DataStax. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the rationale behind our choice of Apache Pulsar.

Fast JMS for Apache Pulsar: Blazing Performance

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:54:44 +0000

DataStax recently announced the availability of Fast JMS for Apache Pulsar , a JMS 2.0 API. By combining the industry-standard Java Messaging Service (JMS) API with the cloud-native and horizontally scalable Apache Pulsar™ streaming platform, DataStax is providing a powerful way to modernize your JMS infrastructure, improve performance, and reduce costs. Fast JMS is open source and is included in DataStax’s Luna Streaming Enterprise support of Apache Pulsar.

What is JMS?

Java Message Service (JMS), or Jakarta Messaging as it is now known, is a standard messaging API that is part of the Java Enterprise Edition (now Jakarta EE ) ecosystem. It defines how to create, send, receive, and read messages between loosely coupled producers and consumers.