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Life & fun · April 28, 2020

Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams

Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams launched on April 28, 2020 with 147 votes, #256 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Liftbridge is a lightweight messaging system designed for fault-tolerant message streams. It provides reliable message processing with minimal resource overhead, making it suitable for applications that need dependable message delivery without heavy infrastructure requirements. The platform focuses on simplicity and efficiency, enabling developers to build streaming applications with built-in fault tolerance capabilities.

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Extend NATS with a Kafka-like durable pub/sub log API. Use Liftbridge as a simpler and lighter alternative to systems like Kafka and Pulsar or to add streaming semantics to an existing NATS deployment. Stream replication provides high availability and durability of messages. Clustering and partitioning provides horizontal scalability for streams and their consumers. No heavy or unwieldy dependencies like ZooKeeper or the JVM. Liftbridge is a single static binary roughly 16MB in size. It has a simple gRPC-based API which makes it quick to implement client libraries. Create streams that match wildcard topics, such as stock.nyse.* or stock.nasdaq.* in addition to topic literals like…from liftbridge.io

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