Apache Iggy graduates to a Top-Level Project after 18 months in the Incubator
Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP
Apache Iggy, a Rust-based message streaming platform, has officially graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP) after a unanimous vote. What began in March 2023 as a personal experiment by Piotr Gankiewicz to learn Rust and explore messaging internals has grown into a community-driven project with over 4,500 GitHub stars, 120+ contributors, and 500K+ downloads. The project's thread-per-core design with io_uring and VSR consensus achieves single-digit millisecond P99+ latencies. Key next steps include clustering for high availability, a Kafka protocol gateway, and further performance exploration.
The moment someone you’ve never met spends their own time submitting a pull request, reporting an issue, improving documentation, testing something or simply participating in a technical discussion, a personal experiment starts becoming something else.
- spetz
Apache Iggy™ has officially graduated from the Apache Incubator and is now an Apache Software Foundation Top-Level Project (TLP)
It’s been quite a journey, from a small Rust message-streaming experiment in 2023 to an independent Apache project with a growing community. And its biggest feature yet, being the Viewstamped Replication Revisited (VSR) clustering, is coming soon.
- junon
I believe spetz is on the project, so I'd like to ask:
Is this a MQ implementation, or can this be used in place of e.g. something like protobufs and iroh/tonic? Does it have something akin to grants/capabilities/authorization? Does it have RPC? Can I have services speak a more privileged set of instructions/commands and clients needing auth to speak dumber/more high level administrative commands just like gRPC?
Also, is the performance due to the (what I assume is custom) zero copy serialization?
The landing page simply states it's essentially "fast messaging" but beyond that it's not entirely clear when I'd use this or what its features/limitations are.
- genxy
For those confused about what Iggy is, the post appears to be written for the Iggy community.
Iggy is basically Kafka written in Rust that has yet to reach the distributed, clustered, fault tolerant stage. Looks cool for sure, but it has a ways to go.