As the last month of 2024 unfolds, we find ourselves in a reflective mood here at Bytewax. It’s hard to believe how much has happened this year—a year that brought us milestones, challenges, and a deeper connection to the incredible community of developers and innovators we’re lucky to work with.
To capture the essence of this transformative year, we’ll be sharing four posts looking back on our journey and celebrating the highlights that shaped Bytewax in 2024.
The Bytewax Platform
In November 2023 we announced the Bytewax Platform—a pivotal step in our mission to eliminate the complexities of stream processing. Built on five core pillars, the platform offers CI/CD integration, disaster recovery, built-in monitoring, and seamless scalability, all while remaining customizable and extensible.
This launch marks a new era for Bytewax, one where developers can go beyond building stream processing jobs to embedding Bytewax into their internal and external-facing platforms effortlessly.
2024 was off to a good start for Bytewax with the Bytewax platform available on AWS Marketplace.
Bytetalks 🐝: Launching Our Weekly Podcast
This year, we took an exciting step by launching Bytetalks, our podcast dedicated to exploring streaming analytics, real-time dataflows, and how Bytewax is making these processes more accessible for developers. Each week, we’ve unpacked complex topics, shared practical insights, and invited our listeners to join us in navigating the ever-changing world of real-time data.
Bytetalks isn’t just a podcast; it’s a reflection of who we are at Bytewax. It embodies our curiosity, our passion for collaboration, and our commitment to simplifying even the most intricate challenges in real-time data processing. It’s been inspiring to see the community engage with this new format, and we can’t wait to continue growing it in 2025.
Celebrating 1,000 GitHub Stars ⭐️
Only a a few months ago we hit a significant milestone: 1000 stars and as we are writing this, the number of stars went up to 1600! Every star represents a developer who believed in what we’re building. It’s a simple but powerful acknowledgment of our work, our ideas, and the vibrant community rallying around us.
When we think about what those stars mean—every pull request, every line of code, every “a-ha” moment a developer experiences while using Bytewax—it’s a reminder that this journey isn’t just ours; it belongs to all of you.
The Bytewax MAD Map: A Resource for Real-Time Python Developers
When we started building the Bytewax MAD Map (Machine Learning, AI, Data), it was a simple slide listing 20 Python libraries for real-time data processing. Today, it’s a community-driven resource featuring over 100 tools, designed to guide Python developers through the complexities of real-time analytics, IoT, and GenAI use cases.
The MAD Map isn’t just a list—it’s a reflection of our philosophy: empowering developers with clarity and actionable insights. Its growth has been fueled by feedback from the Bytewax community, and it’s a symbol of what’s possible when we work together.
Bytewax Integrations: Expanding Our Horizons
This year, Bytewax became even more powerful with new integrations that bridged the gap between real-time processing and analytics—these are just a few of the highlights:
- DuckDB and MotherDuck: Combining local efficiency with cloud scalability, this integration unlocked hybrid workflows that are as practical as they are powerful.
- Redis and Bytewax: With the release of bytewax-redis, we introduced a seamless way to integrate Redis streams and key-value stores into Bytewax dataflows, making it easier than ever to build feature-rich real-time applications.
- ClickHouse Sink: Real-time data meets high-performance analytics in our integration with ClickHouse, enabling developers to handle massive datasets with speed and precision.
These integrations represent our commitment to adaptability—ensuring Bytewax fits seamlessly into your existing workflows while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in real-time data processing.
Major Milestone: 500k PyPI Downloads
Crossing 500,000 downloads on PyPI was a moment of celebration for the entire Bytewax team. This isn’t just a number; it’s a reflection of trust. Every download tells a story of a developer choosing Bytewax for their streaming data challenges, exploring its possibilities, and sharing it with their teams.
This milestone also gave us a chance to reflect on our responsibility as stewards of an open-source framework.
The Workshop: Real-Time RAG Pipelines with Azure AI and Unstructured
Among the highlights of 2024 was a deeply rewarding workshop we co-hosted with Microsoft and Unstructured. Together, we tackled the challenge of integrating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with real-time analytics—a process that combines structured and unstructured data to power intelligent decision-making.
Using financial data as a use case, we demonstrated how to:
- Build RAG pipelines using Bytewax for real-time data processing.
- Leverage Azure AI services to deploy robust analytics solutions.
- Use Unstructured’s tools to process complex documents.
What Comes Next?
2024 was a year of firsts—a podcast, a platform, a community resource in the MAD Map. It was also a year of growth, marked by milestones like 1,000 GitHub stars and 500k downloads.
But more than anything, it was a year of connection. With every workshop, every integration, every star, and every conversation, we felt the strength of the Bytewax community.
As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited to keep building, learning, and growing—with you. Stay tuned as we continue this series, sharing the stories, lessons, and moments that made 2024 unforgettable.
Here’s to the journey so far—and the road ahead.
🐝 The Bytewax Team
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