At Scylla Summit 2022, I presented "FLiP Into Apache Pulsar Apps with ScyllaDB". Using the same content, in this blog, we'll demonstrate step-by-step how to build real-time messaging and streaming applications using a variety of OSS libraries, schemas, languages, frameworks, and tools utilizing ScyllaDB. We'll also introduce options from MQTT, Web Sockets, Java, Golang, Python, NodeJS, Apache NiFi, Kafka on Pulsar, Pulsar protocol, and more. You will learn how to quickly deploy an app to a production cloud cluster with StreamNative, and build your own fast applications using the Apache Pulsar and Scylla integration.
Before we jump into the how, let's review why this integration can be used for a speedy application build. Scylla is an ultra-fast, low-latency, high-throughput, open-source NoSQL platform that is fully compatible with Cassandra. Populating Scylla tables utilizing the Scylla-compatible Pulsar IO sink doesn't require any complex or specialized coding, and the sink makes it easy to load data to Scylla using a simple configuration file pointing to Pulsar topics that stream all events directly to Scylla tables.