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DataStax Astra Streaming Overview
Astra Streaming is a multi-cloud streaming-as-a-service product built on Apache Pulsar by DataStax. Pulsar is a cloud-native, multi-tenant, high-performance solution for server-to-server messaging and queuing built on the publisher-subscribe (pub-sub) pattern. Pulsar combines the best features of a traditional messaging system like RabbitMQ with those of a pub-sub system like Apache Kafka, scaling up or down dynamically without downtime. It's used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, microservices, instant messaging, data integrations, and more. DataStax delivers Pulsar through its Astra Streaming product, which provides a fully-managed SaaS with boundless scale, massive throughput, and low latency.
Decodable + DataStax Astra Streaming
Decodable regards Astra Streaming as both a source which can send a stream of data, and a sink which can receive one or more streams of data from a pipeline. You could use Decodable to take data from Astra Streaming and send to an analytical database or machine learning model, or even send back to another Astra Streaming topic after transformation. With Astra Streaming as a sink, Decodable can take a stream of data from a messaging system such as Kinesis, a REST API or even a standard database like MySQL or Postgres running in CDC (change data capture) mode. Transforming data between Astra Streaming topics can be the basis for building sophisticated event-driven microservice applications without writing a single line of code.
