Dear Pulsar community friends:

Today we are pleased to announce that Pulsar has reached a new milestone with over 300 contributors worldwide! Just 8 months since Pulsar reached the 200 contributor milestone!

As the Apache Software Foundation’s top program, Pulsar is deeply rooted in the community, thanks to its strong community and community of contributors. Thanks to Pulsar contributors and community partners: Pulsar is the community because of you, Pulsar is the community because of you!

Pulsar is a next-generation cloud native distributed message flow system that integrates messaging, storage, and lightweight functional computing. Developed and deployed internally at Yahoo, Pulsar supports 1.4 million topics on the Yahoo Application Services platform and processes over 100 billion messages per day. Pulsar was opened source by Yahoo in 2016 and donated to the Apache Software Foundation for incubation, and became an Apache Software Foundation Top project in 2018. To date, Pulsar has 92 releases, and the GitHub repository has 6.5K+ Star and 1.6K+ Fork.

The community is full of activities

In addition to being active in the Pulsar project code, the Pulsar community also has a variety of activities to help people better understand and apply Pulsar, such as:

  • Tgip-cn Live: Held every Sunday, Pulsar PMC members, committers, contributors and top corporate technology directors will be invited to share Pulsar development trends and best practices. Click on TGIP-CN for review and planning. Pulsar English community also hosts a regular TGIP livestream. Click on TGIP to view the review.

  • Webinars: Monthly webinars are also held by the Pulsar English community to share best practices, insights and project progress. Check out the subscription Youtube channel.

  • Pulsar summit: In June this year, Hosted by StreamNative and Splunk for the first Pulsar Summit, the Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference attracted more than 30 keynote presentations from more than 20 businesses/organizations, Sharing is wonderful. Meanwhile, the Pulsar Summit Asia 2020, hosted by StreamNative, will be held online on November 28-29 for two days. The call for topics will be opened soon. Please sign up for the event.

  • Pulsar Weekly/Monthly report: It summarizes the features, Bug fixes, community activities, and practical cases of Pulsar project every week and month to help you keep track of the latest progress of Pulsar. Click Pulsar Weekly to view the previous Weekly/monthly report.

  • Pulsar Offline Meetup: In the past 2019, we held several offline Meetup events in various cities to gather Pulsar enthusiasts from all over the world. In the future, offline Meetup will be resumed at an appropriate time according to the situation of epidemic prevention and control.

Pulsar is used in a variety of industries

Pulsar uses a layered architecture designed to separate computing and storage to support multi-tenant, persistent storage, and multi-room cross-region data replication. Pulsar features strong consistency, high throughput, low latency, and highly scalable streaming data storage. In the context of real-time computing and streaming computing becoming important technology directions, Pulsar has gradually become one of the best solutions for many large Internet companies and traditional industry enterprises to choose message system and event flow platform by virtue of the above features.

At present, Pulsar landing cases are distributed in artificial intelligence, finance, telecom operators, live and short video, Internet of Things, retail and e-commerce, online education and other directions. For example, Tencent relies on Pulsar to build its Internet billing platform, with daily consumption reaching 10TB+ data and 10 billion + transaction requests, supporting its revenue system of 100 billion yuan. BIGO relies on Pulsar to support its massive live broadcast and short video services for hundreds of millions of users, carrying tens of billions of messages a day. As a global intelligence platform, Doodle Intelligence chose Pulsar as the messaging system infrastructure to build its IoT platform.

For more Pulsar applications, visit Apache or StreamNative.

Rich ecology helps Pulsar develop

Since its birth, Pulsar has been continuously increasing its ecological development and construction. Such as:

  • OVHCloud and StreamNative jointly release KoP (Kafka-on-Pulsar). KoP allows developers to seamlessly migrate Kafka application services to Pulsar without changing any code.
  • China Mobile partners with StreamNative to release AoP (AMQP-on-PulSAR). With AoP, developers can migrate RabbitMQ or other AMQP-class message brokers to Pulsar without changing any code.

You can also explore more Pulsar peripheral integration and tools at StreamNative Hub, covering connectors, monitoring, data processing and more. The rich ecology will also provide strong impetus for Pulsar’s future development.

Special thanks to

Thanks to the Pulsar community and the many contributors and committers, especially to the following committers (including but not limited to) with outstanding contributions:

  • Matteo Merli from Splunk
  • Rajan Dhabalia (Verizon Media)
  • Sijie Guo from StreamNative
  • Sanjeev Kulkarni (from Splunk)
  • Boyang Jerry Peng from Splunk
  • Ivan Brendan Kelly from Splunk
  • Penghui Li (from Zhaopin.com)
  • Jia Zhai from StreamNative

Join the fast-growing Pulsar community

Over 300 global contributors — this is a milestone in Pulsar’s growth and a new starting point for Pulsar’s future development. We sincerely invite you to join the Pulsar open source community and work together to create the next generation distributed message flow platform! Joining the Pulsar open source community is not just a perk for programmers. Whether you love programming or are good at writing documentation, testing, or designing, you can be a part of the community or even a contributor. Raising an Issue on GitHub, sharing a case live on TgiP-CN, helping people solve problems in a wechat group, or attending the upcoming Pulsar Summit Asia 2020 are all ways to get involved.

There is no threshold to becoming a Pulsar contributor. Visit the official guide to learn how to contribute to Pulsar. Meanwhile, if you want to post questions or submit new features, you can do so directly on GitHub.

The Pulsar community awaits you!