5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Pulsar first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I have multiple projects running on a standalone Pulsar cluster, because its easy to setup and requires almost no maintenance.”
endorse · production · olavgg · 2025-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It has been great overall. So good I have recently decided to slow down client work and build a managed SaaS offering for Pulsar”
endorse · production · 4 yr · turtlequeue · 2021-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Overall, our experience has been mostly positive.”
mixed · production · suresk · 2021-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently I have started using Pulsar which provides selective ack and all the best parts of AMQP”
endorse · personal · jpgvm · 2021-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been running this in prod self hosted for around 6 months (podman with docker compose, minio for s3, streaming with pulsar).”
neutral · production · 0.5 yr · pjp1981 · 2025-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?