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StreamNative
Company blog · streamnative.io/blogdatasystems
StreamNative is the company blog at streamnative.io, writing about data and systems. Since 2019, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka a More Accurate Perspective on Pulsar Performance”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link StreamNative's blog for technical comparisons of Apache Pulsar with Kafka and RabbitMQ, plus benchmark and Ursa cost articles. Its hiring posts also appear in HN threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
StreamNative is the Streamhouse for apps, analytics, and AI agents — capturing, transporting, transforming, governing, and serving your business in real time.
Most-linked posts?
- Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka a More Accurate Perspective on Pulsar Performance3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-09
- A Comparison of Messaging Platforms: Pulsar vs. RabbitMQ vs. NATS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-02
- How We Run a 5 GB/S Kafka Workload for Just $50 per Hour3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-31
- Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-24
- Pulsar vs. Kafka2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-09
- Oxia: Scalable Metadata and Coordination2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
- Powering Tencent Billing Platform with Apache Pulsar2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-22
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-08
What Hacker News says?
StreamNative | Remote, Full-Time | https://streamnative.io StreamNative are the main developers behind Apache Pulsar. We are looking for multiple different roles to join our team to help us build and maintain our rapidly growing hosted Apache Pulsar offerings. We are VC backed and seeing strong revenue growth. We are hiring across the company, for example: * Engineering - Looking for engineers to work on our cloud p…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Pulsar vs. Kafka as a story · 112 points
HN discussionSeems like a great day for Pulsar / StreamNative and Redpanda who are going to get a lot of new customers in the coming years. When looking for alternatives to Kafka these are the most promising options I found, not counting RabbitMQ which needs no introduction. Pulsar seems to be 'kafka done better'. The version of Kafka that Confluent used internally (Kora) seems closer to Pular as well. Pulsar has a lot of featur…
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on “IBM to acquire Confluent”Submitted Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka as a story · 98 points
HN discussion> anyone have an idea on how streamnative is doing? we keep pushing Pulsar and moving things - https://streamnative.io/blog/ursa-wins-vldb-2025-best-indust...
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on “IBM to acquire Confluent”Submitted Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar as a story · 19 points
HN discussionStreamNative | Platform Engineer | Remote (US, EU) | Full-time | https://streamnative.io/ StreamNative is enabling organizations to build the next generation of messaging and event streaming applications. Leveraging Apache Pulsar and Bookkeeper, we optimize for scalability and resiliency while reducing the overhead management and complexity required by incumbent technologies. This position is for developing the core…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted 100B Messages Daily: How Tencent Maintains Apache Pulsar Clusters as a story · 15 points
HN discussionStreamNative | Remote, Full-Time | https://streamnative.io StreamNative are the main developers behind Apache Pulsar. We are looking for multiple different roles to join our team to help us build and maintain our rapidly growing hosted Apache Pulsar offerings. We are VC backed and seeing strong revenue growth. * Cloud SRE - https://streamnative.io/careers/cloud-site-reliability-engin... * Cloud SWE - https://streamn…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)”Submitted The Apache Pulsar 2020 User Survey Report as a story · 8 points
HN discussionStreamNative | Full Time | Engineering, Product | SF, LA, SLC, Remote | https://streamnative.io StreamNative is the company founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar. We build a fully managed version of Pulsar and are helping companies build high scale mission critical apps with our robust messaging and streaming API. We are seeing accelerating adoption of Pulsar and strong revenue growth. I am the Chief A…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Oxia: Scalable Metadata and Coordination as a story · 7 points
HN discussionCongrats on the launch! This is Zhenni from PuppyGraph. Shameless plug - We recently supported Ursa and here is the joint blog to showcase how to integrate Ursa engine with PuppyGraph to enable real-time graph analytics for a financial service use case with data stored in a lake house (not graphDB): https://streamnative.io/blog/integrating-streamnatives-ursa-...
Comment linking /blog/integrating-streamnatives-ursa-engine-with-puppygraph-for-real-time-graph-analysis
on “Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka”Submitted How We Run a 5 GB/S Kafka Workload for Just $50 per Hour as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe bulk of the cost savings comes from the use of object storage rather than attached disks. This eliminates the inter-AZ networking costs associated with Kafka replication mechanism. I break all of the costs down in the following e-book. https://streamnative.io/ebooks/reducing-kafka-costs-with-lea...
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on “Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka”Submitted Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJust share a blog post published before, which compares the costs of running a 5 GB/s Kafka workload using Ursa, Warpstream, MSK, and Redpanda: https://streamnative.io/blog/how-we-run-a-5-gb-s-kafka-workl... And the test result was verified by Databricks: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kramasamy_incredible-streamna... The analysis in the blog is based on two key assumptions: - Multi-zone deployment on AWS - Tiered s…
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on “Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka”Submitted Apache Pulsar vs. Apache Kafka 2022 Benchmark as a story · 4 points
HN discussionApache Pulsar: https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/2019-10-22-powering-tencen... . Or BookKeeper directly.
Comment linking /blog/tech/2019-10-22-powering-tencent-billing-platform-with-apache-pulsar/
on “It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (2017)”Submitted Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka a More Accurate Perspective on Pulsar Performance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMore details about KoP: https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/2020-03-24-bring-native-ka...
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on “Kafka-on-Pulsar: bring native Kafka protocol support to Apache Pulsar”Submitted Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka – The Full Benchmark Report as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTake a look at Apache pulsar which is a messaging and streaming platform https://streamnative.io/blog/comparison-of-messaging-platfor...
Comment linking /blog/comparison-of-messaging-platforms-apache-pulsar-vs-rabbitmq-vs-nats-jetstream
on “SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue”Submitted Kafka-on-Pulsar as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch? - Gunnar Morling ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790420 ) 1. Five Advantages of Log-Based Change Data Capture ( https://debezium.io/blog/2018/07/19/advantages-of-log-based-... ) 2. Why Data Architecture Should Guide Your Query Engine Decision ( https://www.onehouse.ai/blog/why-data-architecture-should-gu... ) 3. Reimagine Apache Kafka ( https://streamnative.io/bl…
Comment linking /blog/ursa-reimagine-apache-kafka-for-the-cost-conscious-data-streaming
on “Show HN: Discover and link the indieweb with a simple text query”Submitted Apache Pulsar 4.0: Towards an Open Data Streaming Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso there's one related article: <Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka - A More Accurate Perspective on Pulsar’s Performance>: https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/2020-11-09-benchmark-pulsa...
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on “Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka – The Full Benchmark Report”Submitted The New CAP theorem for Data Streaming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCoincidentally, as someone who worked on this blog, I was surprised (and pleased!) to see that we are not the only ones who felt the need to build a Zookeeper alternative. Looks like folks at StreamNative did as well, with their Oxia project: https://github.com/streamnative/oxia . They were just talking about this yesterday at Confluent Current ("Introducing Oxia: A Scalable Zookeeper Alternative" was the title of t…
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on “ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++”Submitted Achieving Broker Load-Balancing with Apache Pulsar as a story · 3 points
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