Scaling Real-Time Messaging for Live Chat Experiences: Challenges and Best Practices

Live chat is the most common type of realtime Web experience. Embedded in our everyday lives in the form of messaging platforms (e.g., WhatsApp and Slack) and chat experiences across e-commerce, live streaming, and e-lea Read more…

When Not to Use a Database, As Told by Jun Rao

Databases are powerful abstractions that allow people and programs to manipulate large amounts of data in a predictable, repeatable way. There's a good reason why SQL is so important to modern data processing. But in som Read more…

Apache Pulsar 2.0 Released

Apache Pulsar, the distributed “publish and subscribe” messaging platform released to the open source community by Yahoo nearly two years ago is generating streaming messaging capabilities aimed at enterprise data-dr Read more…

Yelp Open Sources Data Pipeline That Saved It $10M

Yelp today open sourced a key piece of code that helped it migrate from a monolithic code base to a distributed services-based architecture. Called Data Pipeline, the Python-based product saved the crowd-sourced review w Read more…

Yahoo’s New Pulsar: A Kafka Competitor?

Yahoo today announced that it's open sourcing Pulsar, a new distributed "publish and subscribe" messaging systems designed to be highly scalable while maintaining low levels of latency. The bus already backs some of Yaho Read more…