# Google Cloud Pub/Sub

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Cloud Pub/Sub and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a managed messaging service that needs little upkeep, scales well, and handles batching, compression and duplicate-free delivery.

## Why people recommend it

- Named among best-in-class Google Cloud services (2 comments): "BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, GKE are all best-in-class." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294327)) "Pub/Sub, Dataflow, CDN, GLB to name a few." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836878))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Amazon SQS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-sqs.md): 18 recommend
- [Cloudflare K2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-k2.md): 10 recommend
- [Cloudflare Queues](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-queues.md): 7 recommend
- [Amazon Kinesis](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-kinesis.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://cloud.google.com/pubsub)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Cloud Pub/Sub", https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-cloud-pub-sub/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).