About LavinMQ
LavinMQ is an open-source message broker developed by 84codes, a Swedish tech company experts in message queueing and message streaming. LavinMQ is written in Crystal and has been optimized from the ground up, inspired by years of experience in hosting and supporting message brokers worldwide. LavinMQ is designed to be faster and more resource-efficient than existing solutions, with a strong focus on high performance. Welcome to the journey!
Background story
[Lavin is Swedish for avalanche] Named after the forces of nature, LavinMQ
is fast and powerful—shaping new landscapes for data movement.
While LavinMQ launched in 2020, its story begins in 2012 with the founding of 84codes. As one of the first hosting providers of message brokers, 84codes quickly became a leader in the field. As the team grew and gained expertise, solutions to small issues from various brokers piled up, and the idea grew; what if it was possible to make a broker, lightweight and fast, that is easy to get started with and run, that is also capable of streaming and re-consume messages? And just like that, LavinMQ was born.
Today the team consists of 45+ engaged contributors to LavinMQ open source project with the joint goal to make message queueing and message streaming a go to solution when building applications and distributed systems with high requirements.
Timeline and some key milestones
2020 - LavinMQ was born during an Avalaunch 😃
2022 - LavinMQ grew from Alpha to Beta
2023 - LavinMQ turned 1.0
2024 - LavinMQ learned Clustering
2025 - LavinMQ mastered the MQTT protocol
We are just getting started
Experience LavinMQ yourself. In this beginner's guide you will find what you need to know to get started with LavinMQ. Join the LavinMQ community and help will be just around the corner. LavinMQ is truly open source but is available as a hosted option at CloudAMQP .
LavinMQ in real life
The idea of LavinMQ was sprung from the idea of making it easier to get going with message queueing and message streaming and us working with it love to talk about it! In this conference calendar you can se our planned conference activity per year.
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