Apache Iggy
Shares rank 8 of 19 message brokers by recommenders
Rust message streaming platform seen as a Kafka alternative with momentum; not yet distributed or fault tolerant.
Rust message streaming platform seen as a Kafka alternative with momentum; not yet distributed or fault tolerant.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong momentum and promising future
“Pretty excited with the future of the project as well.”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Building WebSocket in Apache Iggy with Io_uring and Completion Based IO” “seems like a project with a lot of momentum”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “IBM to acquire Confluent” “Never tried it, but looks promising”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Not yet distributed or clustered
“yet to reach the distributed, clustered, fault tolerant stage”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP” Website looks AI-generated
“landing page is having gradients, pills, badges which looks vibe coded AI slop”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP” “Why the website is looking AI slop?”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP”
Other message brokers people recommend
The four most recommended other message brokers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Kafka | 53 | 55 | 49% | 12 | — | — |
| NATS | 34 | 16 | 68% | 9 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Amazon SQS | 18 | 14 | 56% | 8 | — | — |
| Redpanda | 17 | 4 | 81% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Apache IggyThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“yet to reach the distributed, clustered, fault tolerant stage”
“This is what you would use instead of Kafka.”
“landing page is having gradients, pills, badges which looks vibe coded AI slop”
“Why the website is looking AI slop?”
“we simply build all this stuff from the ground up to make the most out of modern hardware and Kernel features”
“It's been quite a journey, from a small Rust message-streaming experiment in 2023 to an independent Apache project with a growing community.”
“seems like a project with a lot of momentum”
“Never tried it, but looks promising”
“Pretty excited with the future of the project as well.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.