Deliver lightning fast and reliable messaging for your distributed applications with the flexible and resilient Apache Pulsar platform.
In Apache Pulsar in Action you will learn how
Publish from Apache Pulsar into third-party data repositories and platforms Design and develop Apache Pulsar functions Perform interactive SQL queries against data stored in Apache Pulsar
Apache Pulsar in Action is a comprehensive and practical guide to building high-traffic applications with Pulsar. You’ll learn to use this mature and battle-tested platform to deliver extreme levels of speed and durability to your messaging. Apache Pulsar committer David Kjerrumgaard teaches you to apply Pulsar’s seamless scalability through hands-on case studies, including IOT analytics applications and a microservices app based on Pulsar functions.
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About the technology Reliable server-to-server messaging is the heart of a distributed application. Apache Pulsar is a flexible real-time messaging platform built to run on Kubernetes and deliver the scalability and resilience required for cloud-based systems. Pulsar supports both streaming and message queuing, and unlike other solutions, it can communicate over multiple protocols including MQTT, AMQP, and Kafka’s binary protocol.
About the book Apache Pulsar in Action teaches you to build scalable streaming messaging systems using Pulsar. You’ll start with a rapid introduction to enterprise messaging and discover the unique benefits of Pulsar. Following crystal-clear explanations and engaging examples, you’ll use the Pulsar Functions framework to develop a microservices-based application. Real-world case studies illustrate how to implement the most important messaging design patterns.
What's inside
Publish from Pulsar into third-party data repositories and platforms Design and develop Apache Pulsar functions Create an event-driven food delivery application
About the reader Written for experienced Java developers. No prior knowledge of Pulsar required.
About the author David Kjerrumgaard is a committer on the Apache Pulsar project. He currently serves as a Developer Advocate for StreamNative, where he develops Pulsar best practices and solutions.
Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH APACHE PULSAR 1 Introduction to Apache Pulsar 2 Pulsar concepts and architecture 3 Interacting with Pulsar PART 2 APACHE PULSAR DEVELOPMENT ESSENTIALS 4 Pulsar functions 5 Pulsar IO connectors 6 Pulsar security 7 Schema registry PART 3 HANDS-ON APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH APACHE PULSAR 8 Pulsar Functions patterns 9 Resiliency patterns 10 Data access 11 Machine learning in Pulsar 12 Edge analytics
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.