Apache Pulsar Development 101
With Python
Tim Spann | Developer Advocate

● What is Apache Pulsar?
● Python 3 Coding
● Python Consumers
● Python Producers
● Python via MQTT, Web
Sockets, Kafka
● Python for Pulsar Functions
● Schemas

Tim Spann
Developer Advocate
Tim Spann, Developer Advocate at StreamNative
● FLiP(N) Stack = Flink, Pulsar and NiFI Stack
● Streaming Systems & Data Architecture Expert
● Experience:
○ 15+ years of experience with streaming technologies including Pulsar,
Flink, Spark, NiFi, Big Data, Cloud, MXNet, IoT, Python and more.
○ Today, he helps to grow the Pulsar community sharing rich technical
knowledge and experience at both global conferences and through
individual conversations.

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Why Apache Pulsar?
Unified
Messaging Platform
Guaranteed
Message Delivery Resiliency Infinite
Scalability

A Unified Messaging Platform
Message Queuing
Data Streaming

● “Bookies”
● Stores messages and cursors
● Messages are grouped in
segments/ledgers
● A group of bookies form an
“ensemble” to store a ledger
● “Brokers”
● Handles message routing and
connections
● Stateless, but with caches
● Automatic load-balancing
● Topics are composed of
multiple segments
●
● Stores metadata for both
Pulsar and BookKeeper
● Service discovery
Store
Messages
Metadata &
Service Discovery
Metadata &
Service Discovery
Pulsar Cluster
Metadata Store
(ZK, RocksDB, etcd, …)

Pulsar’s Publish-Subscribe model
Broker
Subscription
Consumer 1
Consumer 2
Consumer 3
Topic
Producer 1
Producer 2
● Producers send messages.
● Topics are an ordered, named channel that
producers use to transmit messages to
subscribed consumers.
● Messages belong to a topic and contain an
arbitrary payload.
● Brokers handle connections and routes
messages between producers / consumers.
● Subscriptions are named configuration
rules that determine how messages are
delivered to consumers.
● Consumers receive messages.

Messages - the Basic Unit of Pulsar
Component Description
Value / data payload The data carried by the message. All Pulsar messages contain raw bytes, although message data
can also conform to data schemas.
Key Messages are optionally tagged with keys, used in partitioning and also is useful for things like
topic compaction.
Properties An optional key/value map of user-defined properties.
Producer name The name of the producer who produces the message. If you do not specify a producer name, the
default name is used.
Sequence ID Each Pulsar message belongs to an ordered sequence on its topic. The sequence ID of the
message is its order in that sequence.

Connectivity
• Functions - Lightweight Stream
Processing (Java, Python, Go)
• Connectors - Sources & Sinks
(Cassandra, Kafka, …)
• Protocol Handlers - AoP (AMQP), KoP
(Kafka), MoP (MQTT)
• Processing Engines - Flink, Spark,
Presto/Trino via Pulsar SQL
• Data Offloaders - Tiered Storage - (S3)
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Schema Registry
Schema Registry
schema-1 (value=Avro/Protobuf/JSON) schema-2 (value=Avro/Protobuf/JSON) schema-3
(value=Avro/Protobuf/JSON)
Schema
Data
ID
Local Cache
for Schemas
+
Schema
Data
ID +
Local Cache
for Schemas
Send schema-1
(value=Avro/Protobuf/JSON) data
serialized per schema ID
Send (register)
schema (if not in
local cache)
Read schema-1
(value=Avro/Protobuf/JSON) data
deserialized per schema ID
Get schema by ID (if
not in local cache)
Producers Consumers

MQTT
On Pulsar
(MoP)

Kafka On
Pulsar
(KoP)

Presto/Trino workers can read segments
directly from bookies (or offloaded storage) in
parallel. Bookie
1
Segment 1
Producer Consumer
Broker 1
Topic1-Part1
Broker 2
Topic1-Part2
Broker 3
Topic1-Part3
Segment
2
Segment
3
Segment
4
Segment X
Segment 1
Segment
1 Segment 1
Segment 3
Segment
3
Segment 3
Segment 2
Segment
2
Segment 2
Segment 4
Segment 4
Segment
4
Segment X
Segment X
Segment X
Bookie
2
Bookie
3
Query
Coordin
ator
.
.
.
.
.
.
SQL
Worker
SQL
Worker
SQL
Worker
SQL
Worker
Query
Topic
Metadata
Pulsar SQL

● Buffer
● Batch
● Route
● Filter
● Aggregate
● Enrich
● Replicate
● Dedupe
● Decouple
● Distribute

Streaming FLiP-Py Apps
StreamNative Hub
StreamNative Cloud
Unified Batch and Stream COMPUTING
Batch
(Batch + Stream)
Unified Batch and Stream STORAGE
Offload
(Queuing + Streaming)
Tiered Storage
Pulsar
---
KoP
---
MoP
---
Websocket
Pulsar
Sink
Streaming
Edge Gateway
Protocols
CDC
Apps

Pulsar Functions
● Lightweight computation
similar to AWS Lambda.
● Specifically designed to use
Apache Pulsar as a message
bus.
● Function runtime can be
located within Pulsar Broker.
● Python Functions
A serverless event streaming
framework

● Consume messages from one or
more Pulsar topics.
● Apply user-supplied processing
logic to each message.
● Publish the results of the
computation to another topic.
● Support multiple programming
languages (Java, Python, Go)
● Can leverage 3rd-party libraries
to support the execution of ML
models on the edge.
Pulsar Functions

Function Mesh
Pulsar Functions, along with Pulsar
IO/Connectors, provide a powerful API for
ingesting, transforming, and outputting data.
Function Mesh, another StreamNative
project, makes it easier for developers to
create entire applications built from sources,
functions, and sinks all through a declarative
API.

Python 3 Coding
Code Along With Tim
<<DEMO>>

Run a Local Standalone Bare Metal
wget
https://archive.apache.org/dist/pulsar/pulsar-2.9.1/apache-pulsar-2.9.1-bi
n.tar.gz
tar xvfz apache-pulsar-2.9.1-bin.tar.gz
cd apache-pulsar-2.9.1
bin/pulsar standalone
(For Pulsar SQL Support)
bin/pulsar sql-worker start
https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/standalone/

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Building Tenant, Namespace, Topics
bin/pulsar-admin tenants create conference
bin/pulsar-admin namespaces create conference/pythonweb
bin/pulsar-admin tenants list
bin/pulsar-admin namespaces list conference
bin/pulsar-admin topics create persistent://conference/pythonweb/first
bin/pulsar-admin topics list conference/pythonweb

Install Python 3 Pulsar Client
pip3 install pulsar-client=='2.9.1[all]'
# Depending on Platform May Need to Build C++ Client
For Python on Pulsar on Pi https://github.com/tspannhw/PulsarOnRaspberryPi
https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/client-libraries-python/

Building a Python 3 Producer
import pulsar
client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://localhost:6650')
producer = client.create_producer('persistent://conference/pythonweb/first')
producer.send(('Simple Text Message').encode('utf-8'))
client.close()

Building a Python 3 Cloud Producer Oath
python3 prod.py -su pulsar+ssl://name1.name2.snio.cloud:6651 -t
persistent://public/default/pyth --auth-params
'{"issuer_url":"https://auth.streamnative.cloud", "private_key":"my.json",
"audience":"urn:sn:pulsar:name:myclustr"}'
from pulsar import Client, AuthenticationOauth2
parse = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=prod.py')
parse.add_argument('-su', '--service-url', dest='service_url', type=str,
required=True)
args = parse.parse_args()
client = pulsar.Client(args.service_url,
authentication=AuthenticationOauth2(args.auth_params))
https://github.com/streamnative/examples/blob/master/cloud/python/OAuth2Producer.py
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-BreakoutGarden

Example Avro Schema Usage
import pulsar
from pulsar.schema import *
from pulsar.schema import AvroSchema
class thermal(Record):
uuid = String()
client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://pulsar1:6650')
thermalschema = AvroSchema(thermal)
producer =
client.create_producer(topic='persistent://public/default/pi-thermal-avro',
schema=thermalschema,properties={"producer-name": "thrm" })
thermalRec = thermal()
thermalRec.uuid = "unique-name"
producer.send(thermalRec,partition_key=uniqueid)
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-Thermal

Example Json Schema Usage
import pulsar
from pulsar.schema import *
from pulsar.schema import JsonSchema
class weather(Record):
uuid = String()
client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://pulsar1:6650')
wschema = JsonSchema(thermal)
producer =
client.create_producer(topic='persistent://public/default/weathe
r,schema=wschema,properties={"producer-name": "wthr" })
weatherRec = weather()
weatherRec.uuid = "unique-name"
producer.send(weatherRec,partition_key=uniqueid)
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-Weather

Building a Python3 Consumer
import pulsar
client = pulsar.Client('pulsar://localhost:6650')
consumer =
client.subscribe('persistent://conference/pythonweb/first',subscription_na
me='my-sub')
while True:
msg = consumer.receive()
print("Received message: '%s'" % msg.data())
consumer.acknowledge(msg)
client.close()

MQTT from Python
pip3 install paho-mqtt
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
client = mqtt.Client("rpi4-iot")
row = { }
row['gasKO'] = str(readings)
json_string = json.dumps(row)
json_string = json_string.strip()
client.connect("pulsar-server.com", 1883, 180)
client.publish("persistent://public/default/mqtt-2",
payload=json_string,qos=0,retain=True)
https://www.slideshare.net/bunkertor/data-minutes-2-apache-pulsar-with-mqtt-for-edge-computing-lightning-2022

Web Sockets from Python
pip3 install websocket-client
import websocket, base64, json
topic = 'ws://server:8080/ws/v2/producer/persistent/public/default/webtopic1'
ws = websocket.create_connection(topic)
message = "Hello Python Web Conference"
message_bytes = message.encode('ascii')
base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(message_bytes)
base64_message = base64_bytes.decode('ascii')
ws.send(json.dumps({'payload' : base64_message,'properties': {'device' :
'jetson2gb','protocol' : 'websockets'},'context' : 5}))
response = json.loads(ws.recv())
https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/client-libraries-websocket/
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-IoT/blob/main/wspulsar.py
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-IoT/blob/main/wsreader.py

Kafka from Python
pip3 install kafka-python
from kafka import KafkaProducer
from kafka.errors import KafkaError
row = { }
row['gasKO'] = str(readings)
json_string = json.dumps(row)
json_string = json_string.strip()
producer = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='pulsar1:9092',retries=3)
producer.send('topic-kafka-1', json.dumps(row).encode('utf-8'))
producer.flush()
https://github.com/streamnative/kop
https://docs.streamnative.io/platform/v1.0.0/concepts/kop-concepts

Pulsar IO Functions in Python
https://github.com/tspannhw/pulsar-pychat-function

Pulsar IO Functions in Python
bin/pulsar-admin functions create --auto-ack true --py py/src/sentiment.py
--classname "sentiment.Chat" --inputs "persistent://public/default/chat"
--log-topic "persistent://public/default/logs" --name Chat --output
"persistent://public/default/chatresult"
https://github.com/tspannhw/pulsar-pychat-function

Pulsar IO Functions in Python
from pulsar import Function
import json
class Chat(Function):
def __init__(self):
pass
def process(self, input, context):
logger = context.get_logger()
msg_id = context.get_message_id()
fields = json.loads(input)
https://github.com/tspannhw/pulsar-pychat-function

Python For Pulsar on Pi
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-BreakoutGarden
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-Thermal
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Pi-Weather
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-RP400
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Py-Pi-GasThermal
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-PY-FakeDataPulsar
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Py-Pi-EnviroPlus
● https://github.com/tspannhw/PythonPulsarExamples
● https://github.com/tspannhw/pulsar-pychat-function

Connect with the Community
● Join the Pulsar Slack channel - Apache-Pulsar.slack.com
● Follow @streamnativeio and @apache_pulsar on Twitter
● Subscribe to Monthly Pulsar Newsletter for major news, events, project
updates, and resources in the Pulsar community
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Let’s Keep
in Touch!
Tim Spann
Developer Advocate
@PassDev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyspann
https://github.com/tspannhw

Pulsar Subscription Modes
Different subscription modes have
different semantics:
Exclusive/Failover - guaranteed
order, single active consumer
Shared - multiple active consumers,
no order
Key_Shared - multiple active
consumers, order for given key
Producer 1
Producer 2
Pulsar Topic
Subscription D
Consumer D-1
Consumer D-2
Key-Shared
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K
1,
V
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>
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K
1,
V
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V
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>
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1>
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K
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2
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>
Subscription C
Consumer C-1
Consumer C-2
Shared
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K
1,
V
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K
2,
V
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>
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K
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K
2
,V
2
2
>
Subscription A Consumer A
Exclusive
Subscription B
Consumer B-1
Consumer B-2
In case of failure in
Consumer B-1
Failover

<or> Run in Docker
docker run -it
-p 6650:6650
-p 8080:8080
--mount source=pulsardata,target=/pulsar/data
--mount source=pulsarconf,target=/pulsar/conf
apachepulsar/pulsar:2.9.1
bin/pulsar standalone
https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/standalone-docker/

<or> Run in K8
https://github.com/streamnative/terraform-provider-pulsar#requirements
https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/helm-overview/
https://docs.streamnative.io/platform/v1.0.0/quickstart

Using NVIDIA Jetson Devices With Pulsar
https://dev.to/tspannhw/unboxing-the-most-amazing-edge-ai-devic
e-part-1-of-3-nvidia-jetson-xavier-nx-595k
https://github.com/tspannhw/minifi-xaviernx/
https://github.com/tspannhw/minifi-jetson-nano
https://github.com/tspannhw/Flip-iot
https://www.datainmotion.dev/2020/10/flank-streaming-edgeai-on-
new-nvidia.html
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Mobile/blob/30bcc1ec98fc31e0
39b51a06180d98545c1e0542/python3/enviro.py
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Energy
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-ApacheCon2021WrapUp

Other Applications and Code
● https://github.com/tspannhw/PythonPulsarExamples
● https://milvus.io/
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-SQL
● https://github.com/tspannhw/StreamingAnalyticsUsingFlinkSQL
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-CloudIngest
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-InfluxDB
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-EdgeAI
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Stream2Clickhouse
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-Jetson
● https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiP-SOLR

### --- Kafka-on-Pulsar KoP (Example from standalone.conf)
messagingProtocols=mqtt,kafka
allowAutoTopicCreationType=partitioned
kafkaListeners=PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092
brokerEntryMetadataInterceptors=org.apache.pulsar.common.intercept.AppendIndexMetad
ataInterceptor
brokerDeleteInactiveTopicsEnabled=false
kopAllowedNamespaces=true
requestTimeoutMs=60000
groupMaxSessionTimeoutMs=600000
### --- Kafka-on-Pulsar KoP (end)
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Cleanup
bin/pulsar-admin topics delete persistent://meetup/newjersey/first
bin/pulsar-admin namespaces delete meetup/newjersey
bin/pulsar-admin tenants delete meetup
https://github.com/tspannhw/Meetup-YourFirstEventDrivenApp

Messaging Ordering Guarantees
To guarantee message ordering, architect Pulsar to take advantage of subscription
modes and topic ordering guarantees.
Topic Ordering Guarantees
● Messages sent to a single topic or partition DO have an ordering guarantee.
● Messages sent to different partitions DO NOT have an ordering guarantee.
Subscription Mode Guarantees
● A single consumer can receive messages from the same partition in order using an
exclusive or failover subscription mode.
● Multiple consumers can receive messages from the same key in order using the
key_shared subscription mode.