AsyncAPI, the “the industry standard for defining asynchronous APIs”, recently released version 2.5.0 of its specification. What is significant about this release is that for the first time, Google Cloud Pub/Sub is natively supported. As the author of the Cloud Pub/Sub support for AsyncAPI, I would like to spend some time introducing to you to this feature.

Recently I found myself playing around with Apache Kafka, an “open-source distributed event streaming platform”, and I can’t speak highly enough to the excellent Kafka QuickStart guide. Within a few minutes, this guide has you running a full (albeit simplified) Kafka installation, consuming/publishing events and in doing so, the underlying Kafka concepts are made easy to understand without having to dive into the complexities of a Kafka installation.

I’ve hosted a few blogs over the years, and all of them met the same demise. What started out as a grand plan to share useful articles ended up being a few posts here and there, and finally a cease to all writing in general. I feel like I love to write, but I didn’t seem to care for it after a bit and I was perplexed.