Mastering Apache Pulsar Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale

Jowanza Joseph, staff software engineer at Finicity, explains how to deploy production Pulsar clusters, write reliable event streaming applications, and build scalable real-time data pipelines with this platform. Through detailed examples, you'll learn Pulsar's design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the load manager, and the storage layer.
This book helps you:
Understand how event streaming fits in the big data ecosystem
Explore Pulsar producers, consumers, and readers for writing and reading events
Build scalable data pipelines by connecting Pulsar with external systems
Simplify event-streaming application building with Pulsar Functions
Manage Pulsar to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
Use Pulsar's operational measurements to secure a production cluster
Process event streams using Flink and query event streams using Presto