Liftbridge – lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams
Kafka-style message streaming in Go. Built on NATS. Single binary, no JVM, no ZooKeeper. - liftbridge-io/liftbridge
Liftbridge – lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams launched on July 17, 2018 with 6 votes, #1,113 of 2,673 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
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