Buz

Judgement

What it is

Building block

What it does

A single-binary event collector that accepts Snowplow, CloudEvents, webhook and self-describing JSON events, validates them against schemas and forwards them to many destinations.

Adopt it when

You want a lightweight, serverless-friendly replacement for a Snowplow collector that writes to queues or warehouses you choose.

Watch out

Development stopped in November 2024 and it never reached 1.0.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

Go, Gin, PostgreSQL and MongoDB

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v0.18.5.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Buz → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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