Apache Pulsar at Scale: Managing 200M RPM and Thousands of Instances

Learn how Mercado Libre, Latin America's largest e-commerce platform, leverages Apache Pulsar to handle massive-scale messaging operations in this conference talk from Pulsar Summit SF 2022. Discover how the company manages over 24,000 microservices across 10,000 Bare Metal machines while processing 200 million requests per minute. Explore their custom-built platform-as-a-service solution that abstracts Pulsar's complexity, enabling developers to focus on application development without deep Pulsar knowledge. Gain insights into their architecture that supports 15,000 topics and 25,000 subscriptions, including their implementation of filtering, rate limiting, and custom SDKs. Understand the challenges and solutions of running Pulsar at scale in a multi-cluster AWS environment, supporting critical operations like CDC, event processing, async communication, and notification systems for an organization serving 75 million active users across 18 countries.