Dear Pulsar enthusiast, This is the Pulsar community weekly update for 2020-07-18 ~ 2020-07-24, with updates on Pulsar client, broker, Functions, and so on.
This Pulsar community weekly update is also available at https://streamnative.io/weekly/2020/2020-07/2020-07-17-pulsar-weekly. *All Pulsar community weekly updates are available at **https://streamnative.io/weekly/ <https://streamnative.io/weekly/>.* =============== Notable Feature ================ - [Functions] Reduce the leader initiation time in Pulsar Functions. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7611 - [Functions] Add readiness API for the Function worker leader. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7601 - [Functions] Export Function worker internal stats via Prometheus. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7641 - [Functions] Allow ability to specify retain key ordering in Pulsar Functions. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7647 ================ Notable Bug Fix ================ - [CPP Client] Fix multitopic consumer segfault on connection error. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7588 - [Functions] Fix the issue that the dead letter topic is not the same as enableRetry in Pulsar Functions. https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7610 ================ Event / News ================ - [Pulsar Summit] The first-ever Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 was held on June 17 - 18. This two-day digital event featured more than 30 sessions from top Pulsar contributors and developers. All video recordings and slides are available at [here]( https://streamnative.io/resource#pulsar-summit). - [TGIP] Weekly live stream about Pulsar and its ecosystem. - 016: Backlog and StorageSize - Understand why the storage of your Pulsar cluster is filling up - Sijie Guo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIX570nyq_c - Upcoming events - 07/28: StreamNative Webinar - "How to Operate Pulsar in Production" by Matteo Merli, Joe Frances, Addison Higham, and Sijie Guo Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xMt6QBJ9TWiyeVdifqKITg ================ Blog / Article ================ - Pulsar vs. Kafka: A More Accurate Perspective from Features and Performance to Use Cases and Community - https://streamnative.io/whitepaper/pulsar-vs-kafka - Pulsar vs Kafka - Part 2 - Adoption, Use Cases, Differentiators, and Community - https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/pulsar-vs-kafka-part-2 - Event-driven Functions with Apache Pulsar & Project Flogo - Matt Ellis - https://hackernoon.com/event-driven-functions-with-apache-pulsar-and-project-flogo-wag3y4u *If we miss anything, welcome to reply to this thread, thank you.* *Cheers,Penghui Li, Huanli Meng*