Apache Pulsar in Action

by David Kjerrumgaard

Apache Pulsar in Action is a hands-on guide to building scalable streaming messaging systems for distributed applications and microservices systems. You’ll start with Pulsar’s fundamentals, each illustrated by real-world examples, as you get to grips with Pulsar’s unique architecture. Pulsar contributor David Kjerrumgaard teaches the skills you need to deploy a Pulsar server, ingest data from third-party systems, and deploy lightweight computing logic with simple functions. You’ll learn to employ Pulsar’s seamless scalability through relatable case studies, including an IOT analytics application that can be deployed within a resource constrained environment and a microservices application based on Pulsar functions. At the end of this practical book, you’ll be ready to fully take advantage of Pulsar to create high-traffic message-driven applications.

Genres: Technical, Programming

300 pages, ebook

Published May 31, 2021

Reviews

[Zbyszek Sokolowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Apache Pulsar is a project which is next generation of broker application than Apache Kafka. The latter has some substantial drawbacks like tightly coupled storage and broker. In case of Pulsar in a new way broker layer is stateless. Storage layer is of course stateful and is build with BookKeeper. Combaining it with Kubernetes makes it absolutely dynamic environment. Pulsar is faster than Kafka.

The book in easy way describes physical and logical Pulsar architecture, as well its administration. This is done in mature way and all aspects are covered. In the next chapters security and connectors are covered as well. Then it is getting to be more even more interesting.

Pulsar offers functions, something which is similar to AWS Lambdas. Then modern applications with native Pulsar are described like machine learning and edge computing. Both are really popular and important nowadays.

After reading the book I am sure that I would like to use Pulsar in my future projects and do not use Kafka/MSK. Puslar has a great potential and capabilities. Pulsar in Action is a great book for start. I would recommend it to software developers, devOps and of course architects.