Features

Everything Surgewave ships with, at a glance.

Messaging core

  • Kafka wire compatible — Confluent.Kafka clients, librdkafka, Apache Kafka CLI all work unchanged.
  • Surgewave Native Protocol — richer, lower-overhead binary protocol for first-class Surgewave clients (.NET + planned Python).
  • Multiple transports — TCP by default, QUIC opt-in (client ↔ broker and inter-broker) with mTLS.

Operations

  • Zero-friction single-node + clustered — same binary, flip a config. Raft-based consensus, per-partition replication, geo-replication links.
  • Embedded mode — Surgewave.Embedded hosts a broker in-process; same API for tests, CI, and edge.
  • Blazor control plane — Surgewave.Control ships per-broker; Surgewave.Fleet runs a single cloud control plane across clusters.

Schema + serialization

  • Schema Registry — Confluent-compatible REST API at :8081, standalone or broker-bundled.
  • 12 formats — Avro, Protobuf, JSON, FlatBuffers, Hyperion, MessagePack, CBOR, Bond, Thrift, MemoryPack, Cap’n Proto, Orleans.

Extensibility

  • Plugin system — broker, protocol, storage-engine, control-UI, and CLI plugins via IBrokerPlugin / IProtocolPlugin / IControlPlugin.
  • Signed .swpkg packages — ECDSA P-256 out of the box, CMS/PKCS#7 with X.509 + RFC-3161 timestamps via Surgewave.Licensing. CycloneDX SBOM in every package.
  • Marketplace — surgewave-marketplace service with optional signature enforcement on upload, “Verified” badge in the UI.

Ecosystem

  • Surgewave.Connect — 117 connectors (databases, cloud stores, SaaS APIs, IoT, messaging, AI).
  • Surgewave.Streams — Kafka-Streams-style DSL with stateful joins, windowing, interactive queries.
  • Surgewave.AI — AI pipeline nodes, documents/RAG, retrieval, agents, A2A, ONNX runtime.
  • Surgewave.Samples / Surgewave.Bootcamp — 28 sample apps, 34 bootcamp units.