Introduction and Features of Broadway 1.0

The article by Philip Sampaio announces the release of Broadway 1.0, the first stable version of Broadway, a library that assists in ingesting and processing data from various sources like RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Apache Kafka, and Google Cloud PubSub. Major features of the initial release included back-pressure, automatic acknowledgments, batching messages, automatic restarts, and graceful shutdowns. Over the past months, Broadway has added noteworthy features such as easier testing with Broadway.DummyProducer, partitioning messages, rate-limiting, granular acknowledgments, dynamic pipelines, telemetry events, and new utility functions. The release also includes a new Broadway Dashboard designed for Phoenix LiveDashboard, enabling developers to inspect and fine-tune pipelines for optimal performance. The dashboard visualizes the pipeline stages and helps identify bottlenecks. Additionally, the dashboard also supports distributed environments and a command-line version is in development. The article concludes with a call for community contributions and thanks to current contributors.