In order to promote the development of domestic Open Source ecological industry, China Open Source Cloud League (” COSCL “) organized the selection activities of 2021 Outstanding Open Source Contributor, Excellent Open Source Project, Best Open Source Practice Case and Excellent Open Source Innovative Enterprise.

Apache RocketMQ was selected as the outstanding Open Source Project of foundation Software of 2021 China Open Source Cloud Alliance.

Apache RocketMQ, an open source messaging product from Alibaba, has been tested by the peak traffic on Singles’ Day for many years. RocketMQ entered the Apache Incubator in 2016 and graduated as an Apache Foundation Top Open Source project in 2017. In the same year, RocketMQ Commercial edition was launched on Ali Cloud and provided commercial products and services, beginning the evolution process of the trinity of Kaiyuan, Commerce and Ali Group and unifying the kernel.

RocketMQ is committed to building financial grade messaging middleware services with high reliability, high performance, and low latency. RocketMQ 4.0 has made significant advances in the minimalist architecture available at the financial level, multi-copy capabilities, rich message types, and more. At present, RocketMQ has nearly 500 contributors worldwide and has established a series of interest groups including kernel, batch, Connect, Streaming, multi-language client, RocketMQ-Flink, Operator, and Exporter. Gathered community developers in Beijing, Shenzhen, Suzhou and other cities, a large number of innovations from the community and landing. In recent releases, companies other than Alibaba have contributed over 60% of the code, and more and more companies and developers are participating in RocketMQ contributions.

RocketMQ is currently used by tens of thousands of companies around the world, including not only leading Internet companies such as Bytedance, Kuaishou, Xiaomi, Didi and Elong, but also leading financial companies such as banks, brokerages, insurance companies and fund companies, which have extremely stringent requirements for middleware. RocketMQ has grown rapidly over the past few years to become the business messaging of choice in the microservices space.

With the arrival of the cloud native era and the rise of real-time computing, RocketMQ 5.0, born in the cloud and long in the cloud, arises at the historic moment. Help users build the next generation of event-driven and streaming applications more easily.