Memphis
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Memphis.dev is an open-source, Kubernetes-native data streaming platform and message broker for backend developers.
Also known as Memphis.dev · Memphis{dev} · memphisdev
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Memphis.dev is a data streaming platform and message broker positioned for backend developers and data teams building real-time and event-driven features. The platform packages a production-ready broker with a web UI, CLI and client SDKs, and is distributed for Kubernetes via a Helm chart hosted at k8s.memphis.dev as well as through Docker Compose. Stated capabilities include data-level observability of producers, consumers and records, a dead-letter queue with automatic message retransmission, embedded schema management ("Schemaverse") supporting Protobuf, JSON, GraphQL and Avro, functions for real-time processing, graph visualization of system health, and storage tiering.
The project is developed in Go with a JavaScript/TypeScript UI, and client libraries are offered for Node.js, Go, Python, TypeScript, NestJS, REST, .NET, Kotlin, Java and Rust, with differing levels of feature coverage per language. Documented use cases include asynchronous task management, real-time streaming pipelines, data ingestion, cloud messaging, microservices and service-mesh communication, event and data streaming for observability, analytics and ML/AI workloads, queuing, N:N communication patterns and ingesting Grafana Loki logs at scale. Alongside the self-hosted open-source distribution there is a hosted Memphis cloud offering; client connection examples reference cloud brokers on regional hosts such as aws-us-east-1.cloud.memphis.dev, with accounts identified by an account ID shown in the cloud UI. Connections support password-based authentication (the default), shared token-based authentication, and TLS with client key, certificate and CA files.
Business model
Memphis.dev combines an open-source, self-hosted distribution of its streaming platform with a hosted "Memphis cloud" service that customers connect to using an account ID and regional broker endpoints. The source code is released under the "Memphis Business Source License 1.0", derived from Apache 2.0, which permits use of the licensed work only as part of a user's own product or service provided that product is not a message broker or message queue offering, and prohibits providing the licensed work itself as a competing hosted or managed service.
Traction
The main memphis server repository lists roughly 3,400 GitHub stars, 223 forks and 4,809 commits, with the latest documented release referenced as v1.4.4; the Node.js client repository lists 53 stars, 14 forks and 573 commits. Published case studies cover Dstny (in-house communications), Gastromatic (data synchronization), KELA (real-time cyber threat identification) and handling millions of Discord messages.
Latest developments
The main repository carries a notice that Memphis.dev is no longer officially supported by the Superstream team, formerly Memphis.dev, and that it was released to the public. The repositories are now hosted under the superstreamlabs GitHub organization.
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Market position
Memphis.dev operates in the data streaming and message broker category, offering both open-source and cloud-hosted deployment options; its license explicitly restricts use of the software to build competing message broker, message queue or managed streaming services.
The project positions itself as reducing the effort required to adopt event ingestion and processing, which it describes as previously taking months and being practical mainly for the largest companies. Distinguishing elements cited are a broker deployable in under three minutes, built-in data-level observability and graph visualization, automatic dead-letter queues, embedded schema management, and storage tiering the project associates with up to 96% storage cost savings.
Technology
The server is written in Go and ships as a Kubernetes-native deployment (Helm chart) or Docker Compose stack, with a web UI, CLI and SDKs. Features cited include end-to-end observability of producers, consumers and records, automatic dead-letter handling with retransmit, embedded schema management and enforcement for Protobuf, JSON, GraphQL and Avro formats, schema deserialization in clients, storage tiering for reduced storage costs, message delay, headers, async produce, consumer prefetch and acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement semantics. Data is organized into "stations", distributed units that store messages written by producers and read by consumers, with retention policies that delete messages or move them to remote storage; stations are created automatically when a producer or consumer references a name that does not yet exist.
Go-to-market
Distribution is developer-led and open source: public GitHub repositories, Helm and Docker Compose installation paths, published SDK packages such as the memphis-dev npm module, documentation at docs.memphis.dev, tutorials and videos, a Discord community for support, and public issue templates for bug reports and feature requests. A cloud offering provides a managed alternative to self-hosting.
Backend developers and data engineering teams building event-driven, real-time and streaming applications, including organizations deploying on Kubernetes or Docker and those using the hosted cloud service.
History
The project's repositories, originally under the memphisdev GitHub organization, now reside under superstreamlabs, and the team behind Memphis.dev is identified as the Superstream team, formerly Memphis.dev. Official support for Memphis.dev by that team has ended and the software was released to the public as an open-source, community-driven project.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsThe project repository states that Memphis.dev is no longer supported officially by the Superstream team (formerly Memphis.dev) and was released to the public. Repositories are hosted under the superstreamlabs GitHub organization.
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In the news
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- GitHub - superstreamlabs/memphis: Memphis.dev is a highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform · GitHubgithub.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Memphis do?
- Memphis.dev is an open-source, Kubernetes-native data streaming platform and message broker for backend developers.
- Who are Memphis's investors?
- Memphis's investors include Angular Ventures, boldstart ventures.