Origin
Origin
RocketMQ, a distributed messaging middleware developed by Alibaba in 2012, was designed for message handling on a trillion scale, featuring high throughput, low latency, massive accumulation, and ordered message. It is a readily accessible tool for Double Eleven shopping spree in Alibaba and numerous large-scale Internet business scenarios alike. Thanks to these advantages, it has attracted more and more applications for access. Also in the same year, Alibaba officially open sourced the first version of RocketMQ.
In 2015, RocketMQ has witnessed a number of heavyweight features for messaging, including transaction messages, SQL filter, message retroactive, scheduled messages, and multi-site high availability, etc., to meet Alibaba’s increasingly rich business scenarios. It has also replaced Notify, another Alibaba self-developed MQ product，and become a preferred messaging middleware in Alibaba. And in 2016, RocketMQ developed the first fully-managed service on Alibaba Cloud, helping a large number of digitally transformed enterprises build modern applications, and began to experience large-scale cloud computing practices. In the same year, RocketMQ was donated to the Apache Foundation and enlisted in Incubator Project, aiming to serve more developers in the future.
After graduation from Apache Foundation in 2017, RocketMQ was designated as Top-Level Project(TLP).
From birth to maturity, and finally being an Apache TLP, the success of RocketMQ is inseparable from the efforts of its founding teams and numerous developers for years.
Cofounders
| Image | Name | Apache Id | Github Id | When |
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Xiaorui Wang | vintagewang | @vintagewang | Create RocketMQ in 2012 |
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Qingshan Lin | linhill | @hill007299 | Since @2013 |
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Qiudi Yang | @jodie.yang | Since @2013 | |
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Yubao Fu | @fuyou001 | Since @2013 | |
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Jixiang Jin | lollipop | @lollipopjin | Since @2014 |
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Li Zhou | @zhouli11 | Since @2014 | |
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Zhongliang Chen | @chenzlalvin | Since @2015 | |
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Xinyu Zhou | yukon | @zhouxinyu | Since @2016 |
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Meiping Zhang | @gongyi-zmp | Since @2016 | |
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ZhenDong Liu | dongeforever | @dongeforever | Since @2016 |