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Narad
The message broker that fits in one binary — and one head
Durable message broker in a single Go binary. Produce, consume, ack over plain HTTP — no SDK, no ZooKeeper. Queues, fan-out, delayed delivery, replay, and one-call replication. Proven with 300M+ soaked messages, zero lost. Apache-2.0.
Hi PH 👋 I'm a backend engineer who spent the last few months building Narad to learn distributed systems properly — and it grew into something I'd actually run. It's a durable message broker in one Go binary: you produce, consume, and ack over plain HTTP with curl, and deploying is a single Helm chart — the cluster metadata (Raft) lives inside the same binary, so there's no ZooKeeper or external anything.
It's an AP system — no ordering guarantee, and the docs say so in paragraph two, not a footnote. Before calling it 1.0, I soaked 300M+ messages through a live cluster at 1,000/s with zero loss, ran a kill -9 chaos matrix, and benched 50k msg/s through the full flow. Every claim in the docs is verified against the code.
My favorite part shipped a day after 1.0: replication as a pattern, not a subsystem. One API call creates a live copy of a topic, deliberately placed on different machines. No quorums, no new machinery.
It's free and Apache-2.0. I'd love your questions. The launch post has the stories: https://debanganthakuria.vercel....
love that it's a single binary with no zookeeper pain. one thing that would push me to actually use this in prod: built in prometheus metrics and a ready to go grafana dashboard so i can see queue depth, lag, and consumer ack rates without wiring it up myself.
the no-SDK HTTP approach is super refreshing, especially for polyglot setups. one thing that would help us adopt it: a built-in dead letter queue with configurable retry policies, so failed messages don't have to be reimplemented on every consumer side.
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“The message broker that fits in one binary — and one head”
Narad was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Durable message broker in a single Go binary. Produce, consume, ack over plain HTTP — no SDK, no ZooKeeper. Queues, fan-out, delayed delivery, replay, and one-call replication. Proven with 300M+ soaked messages, zero lost. Apache-2.0.
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