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Re:Kafka at the Low End by akshayshah on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:40AM (#43103251)
Even StreamNative is effectively abandoning Pulsar and going all-in on the Kafka protocol. I can see the theoretical benefits of Pulsar, but it just doesn’t seem to have the ecosystem momentum to compete with the Kafka juggernaut.
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Re:Kafka at the Low End by gnfargbl on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:46AM (#43103326)
The advantages of Pulsar are very much practical, at least for us. Without it we would have to manage two separate messaging systems.

I don't see any evidence of StreamNative abandoning Pulsar at this point. I do see a compatibility layer for the Kafka protocol. That's fine.

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Re:Kafka at the Low End by akshayshah on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:54AM (#43104302)
It sure looks like they’re going quite a ways beyond Kafka-on-Pulsar - the Ursa/Oxia work they’re focused on right now replaces BookKeeper and seems very firmly Kafka-oriented. Or does Ursa also work with the Pulsar protocol?
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Re:Kafka at the Low End by matteomerli on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:02PM (#43150899)
Ursa supports Pulsar protocol as well
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