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Product overview
Choose Pub/Sub or Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka
Choose Pub/Sub or Cloud Tasks
Pub/Sub architectural overview
Pub/Sub reliability
Pub/Sub Lite documentation
Get started
Pub/Sub service overview
Publish and subscribe with client libraries
Publish and subscribe with the gcloud CLI
Publish and subscribe with the console
Secure and control access
Authenticate to Pub/Sub
Access control for Pub/Sub
Configure message encryption
Configure message storage policies
Create and manage tags
Publish messages
Publish message overview
Create a topic
Manage topics
Publish messages
Configure publishing options
Use schemas
- Associate a schema with a topic
- Publish messages to a topic with a schema
Use SMTs
Best practices for publishing
Receive messages
Subscription overview
Choose a subscription type
How subscriptions work
Create a subscription
Manage subscriptions
Use SMTs
Configure delivery options
Best practices for subscribing
Validate and transform messages
Schemas
Single message transforms (SMTs)
Monitor and audit
Monitor Pub/Sub in Cloud Monitoring
Monitor topics within Pub/Sub
Monitor subscriptions within Pub/Sub
View Pub/Sub audit logs
View Pub/Sub reports with labels
Use OpenTelemetry tracing
Best practices for metrics in scaling
Build Pub/Sub systems
Build a one-to-many Pub/Sub system
Replay messages with seek
Migrate from Kafka to Pub/Sub
Use the Pub/Sub remote MCP server
Test and integrate
Test locally with Pub/Sub emulator
Connect Pub/Sub to Apache Kafka
Pub/Sub in Spring applications
Pub/Sub with Cloud Run
Integrate Pub/Sub with Cloud Functions
- Pub/Sub triggers in Cloud Functions
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Integrate Pub/Sub with Dataflow
Work with messages in App Engine
Stream Pub/Sub messages over WebSockets
Troubleshoot
General troubleshooting
Troubleshooting with audit logs
Troubleshoot topics
- Troubleshoot standard topics
- Troubleshoot import topics
Troubleshoot subscriptions
Troubleshoot with GCPDiag
- Troubleshoot pull subscriptions with GCPDiag
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Pub/Sub code samples

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What is Pub/Sub?

Key Point: Understand what Pub/Sub is, why businesses require Pub/Sub, and the advantages of Pub/Sub compared to similar technologies. Also, learn about core Pub/Sub concepts that include the terms topic, publisher, and subscriber.

Pub/Sub is an asynchronous and scalable messaging service that decouples services producing messages from services processing those messages.