Overheard at Pulsar Summit 2022

Apache Pulsar, an open-source event streaming platform, has gained significant traction since its 2016 release, now standing as a top-level Apache Foundation project with over 500 contributors. The Pulsar Summit 2022 in San Francisco showcased its extensive integration with other technologies and its role in driving data democratization through real-time analytics. Key presentations highlighted Pulsar's integration with systems like Apache Beam and Apache Pinot, underscoring its capability for high-speed data ingestion and processing. The summit also featured discussions on new tools and frameworks such as (pf)SQL for native data transformation within Pulsar, and innovative projects like Kafka-on-Pulsar (KoP), which creates a Kafka-like interface using Pulsar. Speakers from companies like Uber and Mercado Libre demonstrated Pulsar's scalability and low-latency performance in handling massive data streams for real-time applications. The event emphasized Pulsar's growing community and its expanding ecosystem, encouraging further development and collaboration.