Apache Foundation Announces Apache Pulsar Becomes Top-Level Project

The Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache Pulsar has successfully graduated from incubation and became a new top-level project for the Foundation.

Pulsar is a distributed messaging/subscription delivery platform designed to achieve scalability and flexibility while ensuring no data loss. The project was open sourced by Yahoo in 2015 and submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2017. 

Pulsar’s original goal was to create a multi-tenant scalable messaging system, and as such, its unique architecture that separates the service area from the storage tier has proven to be a key advantage. These two layers of architecture enable Pulsar to provide a very simplified approach to cluster operations, allowing operators to scale clusters and replace failed nodes easily, or offer higher write and read availability. 

Pulsar leverages Apache BookKeeper as a storage component and is currently used by businesses such as MercadoLibre, Oath, One Click Retail, STICorp, TaxiStartup, Yahoo Japan Corporation, and Zhaopin.com.