Join us on Nov 6 for “From Stream to Screen” webinar with Confluent & Lightstreamer! In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how Confluent and Lightstreamer come together to tackle the last-mile challenge of extending any Kafka architecture to web and mobile platforms. Learn how to effortlessly build real-time web applications within minutes, subscribing to Kafka topics directly from your web…
We were thrilled to be a proud sponsor of Current 2024, the biggest event in data streaming, hosted by Confluent in Austin, Texas, on September 17-18, 2024. As the premier gathering dedicated to real-time data streaming, Current 2024 showcased the transformational power of this technology—a paradigm shift reshaping the way modern systems are designed and…
We are excited to announce that the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector has been awarded the prestigious “Verified Gold” certification by Confluent. This certification highlights our commitment to delivering top-tier solutions that seamlessly integrate with the Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud, ensuring that our users can extend their Kafka capabilities to web and mobile applications with ease…
We are thrilled to unveil the latest addition to the Lightstreamer family—the C++ Client SDK! 🎉 This new SDK is designed to empower developers who are working with C++ to seamlessly integrate real-time data streaming into their applications. Why C++ Still Matters Despite the ever-evolving landscape of programming languages, C++ remains a powerhouse in the…
Lightstreamer is thrilled to announce our sponsorship of Current 2024, taking place in Austin, Texas, on September 17-18, 2024. We warmly invite you to visit us at booth #413, where you can explore the latest innovations in event streaming technology. Current is the leading event for data architects, developers, engineers, and DevOps professionals eager to…
Containerization is one of the most important IT trends over the last two years. Docker heads this technology up, providing an open platform which lets you package up applications with all their dependencies. Applications can be shipped as software containers to enable process isolation, resources optimization, portability, and ease of maintainability and deployment. As passionate about each new exciting…
We are extremely excited to announce that Lightstreamer 6.0 is now publicly available. Many new features and improvements have been included in this release. Here is a very quick summary of what’s new. INSTALL, DEMOS, AND DOCUMENTATION Installing Lightstreamer 6.0 is as easy as pie. When done, a brand new welcome page will let you know that the installation…
Recently, some folks asked on our forum for some advice on how to properly create a Lightstreamer client based on the Python language. An official release of a Lightstreamer Python client is not available yet, so it seems a good moment to show an example of a simple client application written in this wonderful language.The…
We over here at Lightstreamer would like to extend our warmest wishes to all our clients, partners, supporters, and friends for an amazing holiday season and a prosperous new year. 2015 will begin with big news from our team. Lightstreamer 6 will be released in the course of January, with tons of new features and…
This short article will guide you through authentication and authorization in Lightstreamer and will introduce a live example with full source code. Authentication Most, if not all, Lightstreamer applications will, at some point, require some sort of authentication mechanism to validate their users. Moreover, there usually is an authentication mechanism already in place when Lightstreamer is introduced in…
Google’s researchers recently discovered a new vulnerability affecting the SSL protocol. POODLE, which stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, allows an attacker (a man-in-the-middle) to decrypt ciphertext using a padding oracle side-channel attack. Full details are available in this Google paper. POODLE affects older standards of encryption, specifically Secure Socket Layer (SSL) version 3.0. It does…
A maintenance release of Lightstreamer is now publicly available for download. It contains several fixes and improvements. For paid editions, no license updates are necessary to upgrade, provided that a license for server 5.1 and JS client 6.1 is already in use and the maintenance contract is active. Please contact support@lightstreamer.com if you have any questions. Below is…