Memphis Dev Has a Free API — Heres How to Build Event-Driven Apps Without Kafka

Memphis is a real-time data processing platform — simpler than Kafka, more powerful than RabbitMQ. Built-in schema validation, dead letter queue, and a GUI dashboard. Why Memphis? No Zookeeper : Single binary, runs in minutes Schema enforcement : Validate messages at the broker level Dead letter queue : Automatic poison message handling GUI dashboard : Monitor stations, consumers, producers Multi-tenancy : Namespace isolation Cloud + self-hosted : Both options available Docker Setup curl -s https://memphisdev.github.io/memphis-docker/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml docker compose up -d Dashboard available at http://localhost:9000 Node.js Producer import memphis from ' memphis-dev ' ; await memphis . connect ({ host : ' localhost ' , username : ' root ' , password : ' memphis ' , }); const producer = await memphis . producer ({ stationName : ' orders ' , producerName : ' order-service ' , }); await producer . produce ({ message : Buffer . from ( JSON . stringify ({ orderId : '