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Messaging and Streaming with Apache Pulsar - with Matteo Merli

In this video I talk about Apache Pulsar with Matteo Merli, CTO at StreamNative. This episode will provide you good insight about how Apache Pulsar works and more importantly differs with the most popular Pub/Sub and streaming platform Apache Kafka. Things like, what enables possibility of 1 million topics? Why is rebalancing not required? How does decoupled storage and compute architecture works? How it uses the concept of Subscriptions to avoid retaining data unnecessarily? And much more... Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 00:08 Understanding Apache Pulsar and its Origin 01:22 The Problem Apache Pulsar was Designed to Solve 02:35 The Evolution of Apache Pulsar 05:15 Understanding Basic Concepts of Apache Pulsar 09:27 Deep Dive into Apache Pulsar's Architecture 21:16 Understanding the Flow of Data in Apache Pulsar 28:54 Understanding Subscriptions in Apache Pulsar 31:57 Understanding End-to-End Latency and Subscription Creation 32:32 Broker's Role and Handling Metadata 33:05 Memory Management and Consumer Handling 34:07 Message Processing and Flow Control 34:32 Message Storage and Retrieval 36:00 Comparing Pulsar with Kafka 43:52 Understanding Multi-Tenancy in Pulsar 49:17 Exploring Tiered Storage and Future Developments Important links: StreamNative: https://streamnative.io/ Apache Pulsar: https://pulsar.apache.org/ Matteo Merli: https://twitter.com/merlimat =============================================================================== For discount on the below courses: Appsync: https://appsyncmasterclass.com/?affiliateId=41c07a65-24c8-4499-af3c-b853a3495003 Testing serverless: https://testserverlessapps.com/?affiliateId=41c07a65-24c8-4499-af3c-b853a3495003 Production-Ready Serverless: https://productionreadyserverless.com/?affiliateId=41c07a65-24c8-4499-af3c-b853a3495003 Use the button, Add Discount and enter "geeknarrator" discount code to get 20% discount. =============================================================================== Follow me on Linkedin and Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivalyaapte/ and https://twitter.com/thegeeknarrator If you like this episode, please hit the like button and share it with your network. Also please subscribe if you haven't yet. Database internals series: https://youtu.be/yV_Zp0Mi3xs Popular playlists: Realtime streaming systems: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4se-mAKKoVOs3VcaP71X_LA- Software Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4sf6By03bot5BhKoMgxDUU17 Distributed systems and databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4sfLDUnjBJXJGFhhz94jDd_d Modern databases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4scSeZAsCUXijtnfW5ARlrsN Stay Curios! Keep Learning!

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