Responsive apps keep developers motivated and users engaged. With the DataStax Astra streaming service platform, you can meet these ever-increasing demands. DataStax Astra Streaming, powered by Apache Pulsar, is a cloud-native messaging platform and event streaming platform. Astra Streaming lets you build streaming applications on top a multi-cloud, elastically scalable and event streaming platform. Apache Pulsar is the next-generation event streaming platform that powers Astra Streaming. It provides a unified solution to streaming, queuing and stream processing. Astra Streaming complements Astra DB. Astra Streaming allows existing Astra DB users to easily create real-time data pipelines from and to their Astra DB instances. Astra Streaming allows you to avoid vendor lock-in by deploying on any major public cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure) compatible with open source Apache Pulsar.