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Event Streaming at 10M Events/Sec: Apache Kafka vs Redpanda (C++) vs Apache Pulsar

A high-throughput distributed message broker benchmark. We evaluate p99.9 latency under memory pressure, Raft consensus metadata, thread-per-core hardware saturation, and cloud egress costs across Kafka, Redpanda, and Pulsar.

Sachin Sharma
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Sep 2, 2026
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Event Streaming at 10M Events/Sec: Apache Kafka vs Redpanda (C++) vs Apache Pulsar
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A high-throughput distributed message broker benchmark. We evaluate p99.9 latency under memory pressure, Raft consensus metadata, thread-per-core hardware saturation, and cloud egress costs across Kafka, Redpanda, and Pulsar.

Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma

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