Apache Pulsar and the Legacy of Telegraphy

This talk compares Victorian wireless telegraphy with Apache Pulsar to explain design choices for globally distributed, low-latency applications. It covers Pulsar’s storage, replication, transmission, schemas, security, delivery guarantees, stream processing, deployment, and Pulsar Functions and SQL through a demo.

Syllabus

Introduction
Agenda
The history of computing
The Victorian Internet
Transmission Cost
Ciphers
Service Map
Usages
Morse Code
Problems with Telegraphy
What is Apache Pulsar
Basic Architecture
Review Problem
Data Storage
Storage Architecture
Scaling Storage
Tiered Storage
Data Transmission
Schema Registry
Avro
Schema
Multicasting
Pulsars Multicasting
Pulsars Encryption
Pulsars Security
Delivery Guarantees
No Guarantees
Stream Processing
Pulsar Sequel
Pulsar Presto
Pulsar Functions
Pulsar Nodes
Pulsar Go
Future of Pulsar
Demo
Data
Pulsar Function
Try Pulsar
Questions