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ThingsBoard
Company blog · thingsboard.io/blog · on HN as dshvaikasystemsprogramming
ThingsBoard is the company blog at thingsboard.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How TBMQ achieves 1M messages/sec for reliable point-to-point messaging”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links ThingsBoard's site as the home and documentation page for an Apache 2.0 open-source IoT platform, including its samples and MQTT broker testing methodology.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ThingsBoard is an all-in-one IoT platform that gives you everything you need to build, deploy, and scale IoT solutions.
Most-linked posts?
- How TBMQ achieves 1M messages/sec for reliable point-to-point messaging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-14
- /docs/mqtt-broker/reference/100m-connections-performance-test/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Hi everyone! Me and my friends have just released open-source (Apache 2.0) IoT platform that is free for commercial use. Sample projects: http://thingsboard.io/docs/samples Server side is based on Akka, gRPC, Zookeeper and Cassandra Front-end is based on Angular Material Don't hesitate to star the project on github to help us spread the word.
Comment linking /docs/samples
on “Thingsboard open-source IoT Platform”Submitted How TBMQ achieves 1M messages/sec for reliable point-to-point messaging as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI was working on this at my previous employer. We started with Elasticsearch and were planning to move to Timescale ( https://www.timescale.com ). Another project used Cassandra which had some issues but they were happy with overall. You might also want to look into Thingsboard ( https://thingsboard.io ) which supports both Timescale/Postgres and Cassandra.
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on “Ask HN: How to build an IoT analytics database?”Submitted Open-source MQTT broker shows market-leading performance as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you’re as confused as I was when I clicked the link expecting to see a board, this is a software project rather than a hardware board. Their website was a more informative introduction for me than the GitHub repo: https://thingsboard.io/
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on “ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform”Submitted TBMQ 2.1 levels up your MQTT stack with embedded integrations and Helm support as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs for me, TBMQ proposes the same reasons to use it as ActiveMQ Artemis. ActiveMQ Artemis seems to be a great platform that states about its high performance, clustering support, and data persistence. We believe TBMQ offers the same advantages by relying on Kafka to provide high-throughput and low-latency delivery. Check out our performance results: https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/reference/100m-conne... We…
Comment linking /docs/mqtt-broker/reference/100m-connections-performance-test/
on “New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker”Submitted Thingsboard open-source IoT Platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRight, we are not stating anything without proving it in the first place. You can find another test here: https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/reference/3m-through...
Comment linking /docs/mqtt-broker/reference/3m-throughput-single-node-performance-test/
on “New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker”Submitted Show HN: Generate IoT applications from plain-language requirements as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou are correct. TBMQ is based on Spring Boot. We use Netty ( https://netty.io/ ) as the source of the MQTT communication, and we build the MQTT features the MQTT broker should support ourselves on top of that. Kafka is used to implement scalable, fault-tolerant solution with reliable message persistence. Additionally, it helped to gain high-throughput processing and low-latency message delivery. We store published…
Comment linking /docs/mqtt-broker/architecture/
on “New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker”Submitted ThingsBoard User Meetup 2025 Overview as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey document their testing methodology here: https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/reference/100m-conne...
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on “New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker”Submitted ThingsBoard Edge Update – Now with Kafka and Cassandra Support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI would recommend reviewing the following article: https://bloomberg.github.io/blazingmq/docs/introduction/comp... Key points can be found there and everyone will choose their own priorities. For us these are: * https://bloomberg.github.io/blazingmq/docs/introduction/comp... * https://bloomberg.github.io/blazingmq/docs/introduction/comp... (Kafka is Java as well as TBMQ, Kafka already does not depend on Zookeeper) *…
Comment linking /docs/mqtt-broker/reference/3m-throughput-single-node-performance-test/
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