Today, when you think about building event-driven and real-time applications, the words that come to you spontaneously are probably: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Kafka. These are the solutions that dominate this landscape. But have you ever heard of Apache Pulsar? After a brief presentation of the fundamental concepts of messaging, you'll discover the Pulsar features that enable you to build amazing event-driven applications. You'll learn the following: - how Apache Pulsar architecture differs from other brokers - how it enables scaling processing power & data independently, quickly, and with no hassle - how it guarantees high durability of messages - how it can be relevant as a unified streaming & messaging platform - how to integrate Pulsar with your existing application portfolio that is compatible with Kafka or RabbitMQ - some insight into the open-source community around Pulsar