twitter-archive/kestrel
simple, distributed message queue system (inactive) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6708
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3876
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2753 stars · 308 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Kestrel is a simple, distributed message queue system written in Scala, originally developed at Twitter and based on Starling. It offers fast, durable, reliable queues with loose ordering across a cluster, but is now deprecated and unmaintained.
Use cases
- run a simple distributed message queue on the JVM
- queue messages durably with disk journaling
- scale message queues horizontally without cluster coordination
- reliably hand off messages when clients crash
- replace starling with a more robust message queue
When to choose
- you need a small, fast, easy-to-deploy queue and can accept loose ordering
- you want durable queues without heavy clustering machinery
- you're maintaining a legacy system already built on Kestrel
When to avoid
- you need strong global ordering or transactions
- you need an actively maintained project with fixes and support
- you operate at very large scale with diverse workloads
- you need modern features like rich routing or streaming semantics
Facets
service · maturity abandoned
message-queue microservices backend jvm self-hosted scala deprecated memcache-protocol durable-queues messaging linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/twitter-archive/kestrel · fetched 2026-08-28 · 87206937d537
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| twitter-archive/kestrel | main | 10 |
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