Writing Custom Sink Connectors for Pulsar I/O

Pulsar Summit Europe 2021 – Virtual

Oct. 2021

Ricardo Ferreira

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Abstract

You currently have massive amounts of data sitting on Apache Pulsar and likely — even more data coming in every second. But part of your project requires this data to be sent to some system to explore the dataset further. You look into the Pulsar website for built-in connectors to that particular system and realize that there are none. What a bummer. But you don’t have to give up on Pulsar because of this. You can write custom sink connectors for Pulsar I/O that work just like the built-in ones, and all you will need is a bit of Java development experience and creativity. The rest you can leave to this talk. This talk will explain how to start developing your custom connector, show how the code looks like, demonstrate how to deploy, and discuss some of the design decisions that your custom connector may need to address.

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I contribute to LangChain4j, an idiomatic open source Java library for building LLM-powered applications on the JVM. Recent work includes adding native vector search embedding stores so developers can build RAG, recommendation engines, and AI memory systems.

I also ported RedisVL to Go, an open source, AI-native client that brings vector search, semantic caching, LLM memory, semantic routing, rerankers, and an MCP server to the Redis ecosystem for Golang developers.

Public Speaking

I’ve been speaking at conferences since 2008 and doing it full time as part of my work with DevRel since 2018. My talks go deep on the systems I build with: distributed systems and event streaming, AI engineering and vector search, and the data infrastructure that has to hold up when the demo ends and production begins. Some of the events I’ve spoken at include AWS re:Invent, Microsoft Ignite, Google Cloud Next, KubeCon, Oracle OpenWorld, QCon, Strange Loop, Kafka Summit, Pulsar Summit, JavaOne, DevNexus, JFokus, JNation, and All Things Open.

Ricardo Ferreira presenting on the main stage at AI DevWorld
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You can find my upcoming and past talks on my speaking calendar. Recordings also live on my YouTube channel, and the code I write for talks, demos, and workshops is on my GitHub.

Consulting and Professional Services

If you’d like to hire me as a consultant for your projects, speak at your event, or lead a hands-on workshop for your team, contact me at riferrei@riferrei.com. I can understand the scope of your request and provide a free estimate.

Who am I?

I work at the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and distributed systems, turning complex technology into things developers can understand and products users love.

Lately, that means hands-on AI engineering: building vector search, semantic caching, agent memory, and RAG into the data layer, and figuring out how to make AI agents secure enough to ship. I contribute to open-source projects like LangChain4j and RedisVL for Golang.

The AI-native work isn’t a pivot. It draws on the same systems-design foundation I’ve built for 20+ years: designing data systems for scale, moving data fast, watching where systems break; now applied to vectors and agents. I have worked on RDBMS and Big Data at Oracle; event streaming with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink at Confluent; observability at Elastic; AI and developer tooling at AWS; and NoSQL and vector stores at Redis. That foundation is exactly what separates AI demos that work on stage from AI systems that survive production.

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