Apache RocketMQ won the 2021 China Open Source Cloud Alliance Excellent Open Source Project

In order to promote the development of the domestic open source ecological industry, the China Open Source Cloud League (“COSCL”) organized the 2021 Outstanding Open Source Contributors, Outstanding Open Source Projects, Best Open Source Practice Cases, and Outstanding Open Source Innovation Enterprise selection activities.

Apache RocketMQ was successfully selected as the 2021 China Open Source Cloud Alliance Fundamental Software Excellent Open Source Project.

Apache RocketMQ is a messaging product open sourced by Alibaba. It has undergone many years of rigorous test of traffic peaks during Double Eleven. RocketMQ entered the Apache incubator in 2016 and graduated in 2017 as the top open source project of the Apache Foundation. In the same year, the commercial version of RocketMQ was launched on Alibaba Cloud and provided commercial products and services to the outside world, starting the evolution process of the trinity of open source, commerce, and Alibaba Group, and a unified kernel.

RocketMQ has been committed to creating financial-grade high-reliability, high-performance, and low-latency messaging middleware services. RocketMQ 4.0 has made great progress and progress in terms of financial-level available minimalist architecture, multiple copy capabilities, and rich message types. At present, RocketMQ Global Contributor has nearly 500 people, and a series of interest groups including kernel, batch, connect, streaming, multilingual client, rocketmq-flink, operator, exporter have been established; it has gathered in many cities including Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou, etc. Community developers, a large number of innovations are generated from the community and landed. Judging from the recent versions, the code contributed by companies other than Alibaba has exceeded 60%, and more and more companies and developers have participated in RocketMQ contributions.

At present, more than tens of thousands of companies around the world are using RocketMQ, including not only the leading Internet companies such as ByteDance, Kuaishou, Xiaomi, Didi, and Yicheng Yilong, but also a series of pairs of top banks, brokerages, insurance, fund companies, etc. Financial companies with extremely stringent middleware requirements. RocketMQ has experienced rapid development in the past few years and has grown into the first choice for business messaging in the microservices field.

With the advent of the cloud-native era and the rise of real-time computing, RocketMQ 5.0, which was born in the cloud and longer than the cloud, came into being. Alibaba Cloud message queue RocketMQ has been upgraded to a cloud-native message, event, and stream fusion processing platform RocketMQ 5.0 to help users better Easily build next-generation event-driven and stream processing applications.