The Lightstreamer Helm Chart lets you deploy, configure, and scale the Lightstreamer Broker on Kubernetes through a single, declarative values.yaml file. Instead of hand-crafting Kubernetes manifests, you get reproducible configuration for TLS, health probes, rolling upgrades, horizontal scaling, adapters, and connectors — all managed by Helm and consistent across environments. This post walks through what the chart…
Modern real-time architectures increasingly rely on cloud-managed streaming platforms.Yet, delivering Kafka data efficiently to browsers, mobile apps, and edge clients remains a complex challenge. With the 1.5.0 release of the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector, developers can now seamlessly integrate Kafka workloads running on Microsoft Azure and stream them to millions of concurrent clients in real time….
Ever wondered how top-tier applications deliver data in the blink of an eye? From the fast-paced world of financial trading to the competitive arena of online gaming, every millisecond counts. This is where Lightstreamer, the high-performance real-time messaging server, shines. Its uniquely optimized algorithms are engineered to push data to mobile, web, and desktop clients…
The Lightstreamer Kafka Connector achieved an impressive throughput of 1.6 million messages per second to 4,000 concurrent clients, running on a server with just 4 cores and 8 GiB of RAM.
Under the same test conditions, even on a modest server with 4 cores and 8 GiB of RAM, the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector demonstrated the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent clients, significantly surpassing the scalability of direct connections to the Kafka broker.
We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to the Lightstreamer family: the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector, now available to you at no additional cost! As many of you are aware, the Apache Kafka® platform is the industry standard for distributed event streaming, used by 80% of Fortune 100 companies. It excels in creating high-performance data…
In the digital age, where information moves faster than ever, real-time data streaming has become a cornerstone of modern software development. From financial markets to social media feeds, the demand for live, up-to-the-second data is ubiquitous. Enter Lightstreamer: a robust server engineered to meet this demand by delivering real-time data to any Internet-connected device, anywhere…
The landscape of spatial computing is advancing with significant strides, and at the forefront is Apple’s Vision Pro headset, a remarkable innovation powered by the newly introduced visionOS. This operating system, revealed at WWDC 2023, is Apple’s latest venture into the realm of augmented and virtual reality, bringing a new level of immersion and interactivity…
Spring Boot is an ideal framework for building stand-alone applications that implement remote adapters for Lightstreamer. There are several compelling reasons for choosing Spring Boot in this context: 1. Simplicity and Speed: Spring Boot simplifies the development process by providing a wide range of pre-configured templates, which significantly speeds up application setup and deployment. This is…
If you are new to Lightstreamer, it’s a real-time messaging server that allows data to be pushed to mobile, web, and desktop applications in real-time. Its optimized transmission algorithms make it the right choice for applications that require low-latency data delivery, such as financial trading, online gaming, and data streaming services. Excel is a popular…
We are thrilled to announce a momentous new release of Lightstreamer, encompassing both the Lightstreamer Server and all the Lightstreamer Client SDKs and Adapter SDKs. This significant update introduces groundbreaking features and improvements, enhancing the overall performance and functionality of Lightstreamer. Brand New Client SDKs Based on the Unified Client Model We have taken a…
This blog post continues the series of examples through which we want to show various technologies that can be used as a data source to power a Lightstreamer Data Adapter and, in turn, dispatch the data to multiple clients connected to the Lightstreamer server all around the internet.