Exploring Apache Pulsar Use Cases

Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and event streaming platform developed at Yahoo in 2013 and open-sourced in 2016 with the Apache Software Foundation. It has been adopted by numerous companies such as Yahoo! Japan, Tencent, Comcast, and Overstock for efficiently moving data. Pulsar is a unified messaging and streaming platform that can handle pub-sub, queueing, streaming, and stream processing needs in one place. Its advantages over competing solutions like Apache Kafka include removing the pain and operational costs of deploying, managing, maintaining, and integrating several systems with similar functions. Pulsar supports publish-subscribe messaging (pub-sub), queueing, streaming, and stream processing use cases. It is used by modern enterprises for real-time analytics, fraud detection, tracking financial trades, website engagement evaluation, and more.