What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub?
Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a tool in the Realtime Backend / API category of a tech stack.
Who uses Google Cloud Pub/Sub?
Companies
230 companies reportedly use Google Cloud Pub/Sub in their tech stacks, including Mollie, Groww, and Client Platform.
Developers
272 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub Integrations
Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Functions for Firebase, Snowplow, Google Cloud Source Repositories, and KrakenD are some of the popular tools that integrate with Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Here's a list of all 16 tools that integrate with Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
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Decisions about Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Google Cloud Pub/Sub in their tech stack.
Jithin Eapen
What are the best options to host a Spring Boot application that acts as a receiver and publisher from Google Cloud Pub/Sub. I am using Google App Engine to do that, but there is Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Run that can be used. Which is the best option that can be used for this purpose and also that can handle the failover scenarios as well. Thanks!
AvishekNath
Which messaging service (Pusher vs. PubNub vs. Google Cloud Pub/Sub) to use for IoT?
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Google Cloud Pub/Sub Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Pub/Sub?
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
