(First published on LinkedIn by AutoMQ on July 16, 2025)
Today, we are thrilled to announce a strategic collaboration between AutoMQ and Lightstreamer, two innovators in the real-time data and streaming technology space. This partnership aims to empower businesses with seamless, scalable, and high-performance solutions for real-time data processing, enabling faster decision-making and enhanced customer experiences. By combining AutoMQ’s cloud-native streaming expertise with Lightstreamer’s industry-leading real-time messaging capabilities, we are committed to helping enterprises unlock the full potential of their data in motion.

What Is AutoMQ?
AutoMQ is a cloud-native streaming data platform fully compatible with Apache Kafka, built to meet the demands of real-time data processing in modern cloud environments. Unlike traditional Kafka implementations, AutoMQ decouples storage and compute, enabling elastic scaling, lower costs, and high availability by leveraging cloud object storage (like Amazon S3 or Alibaba OSS) to store data.
With AutoMQ, enterprises can run Kafka-compatible workloads more efficiently—supporting millions of events per second, dynamic scaling, and multi-cloud deployments—while significantly reducing operational complexity and infrastructure costs.

About Lightstreamer
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Italy, Lightstreamer is a leading provider of ultra-low-latency data push technology. Its core platform powers mission-critical applications across finance, gaming, and IoT industries, delivering millisecond-level latency with exceptional reliability.
Purpose-built for real-time data delivery over the internet, Lightstreamer intelligently handles challenges such as firewalls, disconnections, network congestion, and unpredictable connectivity. Its adaptive streaming engine ensures smooth integration across diverse systems and guarantees robust, last-mile delivery to clients, no matter the environment.

Notably, since 2010, Lightstreamer has been used by NASA to stream real-time telemetry from the International Space Station (ISS) to users worldwide. This demonstrates its reliability and performance in high-stakes, global-scale scenarios.

How AutoMQ and Lightstreamer Work Together
This strategic partnership between AutoMQ and Lightstreamer is founded on a shared commitment to empower businesses with flexible, scalable, and reliable real-time data solutions that address the full spectrum of modern streaming challenges.
While Apache Kafka® provides a powerful backbone for event ingestion and processing, it was not originally designed to overcome the complexities of internet-scale delivery, especially across the critical “last mile” — where firewalls, variable network conditions, and millions of concurrent client connections demand more than traditional brokers can offer.
By deeply integrating AutoMQ’s cloud-native, Kafka-compatible streaming platform with Lightstreamer’s industry-leading last-mile data push technology, customers gain a seamless end-to-end real-time pipeline that simplifies architecture and maximizes performance:
- Complete Real-Time Data Flow — From high-throughput event ingestion in AutoMQ, through to millisecond-level delivery pushed directly to millions of web, mobile, and desktop users via Lightstreamer, enterprises can rely on consistent, low-latency streaming at scale.
- Cloud-Ready and Multi-Cloud Flexible — AutoMQ’s separation of compute and storage enables elastic scaling and cloud portability, while Lightstreamer’s protocol and client SDK versatility ensures robust, uninterrupted delivery regardless of device or network environment.
- Cost Efficiency at Scale — Leveraging cloud object storage to reduce backend costs, combined with Lightstreamer’s optimized network usage, customers can support massive global workloads without overspending on infrastructure.
- Developer and Operations Friendly — Full Kafka API compatibility from AutoMQ pairs perfectly with Lightstreamer’s comprehensive SDKs and client management tools, accelerating time to market for real-time apps across industries like finance, gaming, IoT, and more.

Together, AutoMQ and Lightstreamer offer not just technology, but a future-proof real-time data ecosystem that enables organizations to act instantly on data wherever it originates and wherever users are located. Whether building real-time analytics, event-driven systems, or live interactive experiences, this partnership ensures enterprises have the tools, flexibility, and reliability they need to thrive in today’s data-driven world.
Innovation and Collaboration
AutoMQ’s continuous innovations in the Kafka streaming space have earned strong recognition from the Lightstreamer team, which helped catalyze this partnership. Beyond delivering Kafka services with superior performance and cost efficiency, AutoMQ has introduced a groundbreaking capability called Table Topic to enhance how users analyze Kafka data.
With Table Topic, AutoMQ’s topic data can be stored directly in Iceberg table format on object storage, enabling a zero-ETL approach that significantly simplifies the integration of Kafka streaming data with data lakes. This innovation expands the boundaries of what the joint AutoMQ and Lightstreamer solution can achieve, opening new possibilities for seamless, end-to-end real-time data workflows.
Discover more about this capability here.

References
[1] Lightstreamer architecture: seamless real-time delivery across backend and end-user devices
[2] Real-time ISS telemetry dashboard powered by Lightstreamer
First published on LinkedIn by AutoMQ on July 16, 2025