2 years ago

Category: Software, Data, Infrastructure, Architecture, RabbitMQ

https://twitter.com/addisonjh Here’s a bold statement — all signs indicate that the Apache Pulsar open source distributed messaging system is rapidly capturing the zeitgeist of modern application architecture and development. As engineering teams move to solve more and more complex challenges, the tech and tools needed to solve problems continue to evolve.

Most distributed messaging systems support one of two types of semantics: streaming and queueing.

A queueing platform is somewhat similar to a streaming platform in the sense that it’s about linking systems together.

One unified streaming and the queueing platform is one less technology than having separate streaming and queueing technologies.