Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation

Summary

A shared commitment to advancing the future of systems programming and reliable distributed software Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged a combined $512,000 USD to the Zig Software Foundation (ZSF) over the next two years, demonstrating a shared belief in Zig’s potential to shape the next era of high-performance, reliable, and maintainable software. Synadia’s Mission: Connecting Everything At Synadia, we help some of the world’s largest enterprises design and scale innovative architectures across cloud regions, cloud providers, and all the way to the far edge. Often described as a “decentralized nervous system,” we enable secure, reliable communication between services and data, no matter the environment or topology - so our customers can deliver incredible digital products and experiences. From the beginning, our mission has been bold yet simple: to connect everything. Built on top of NATS.io, our platform enables organizations to modernize, digitize, and extend their systems all the way to the edge. Synadia’s technology enables organizations to build and scale microservices, streaming and telemetry platforms, and event sourcing systems, while leveraging modern data primitives such as key-value and object stores anywhere within those systems. Our customers span industries from financial services and e-commerce to gaming, manufacturing, industrial IoT, connected and autonomous vehicles, energy systems, and embodied AI. They continually challenge us to push the limits of what’s possible - delivering secure, real-time communications and data movement anywhere with minimal overhead. A Shared Vision with TigerBeetle Beyond the language itself, the most impressive aspect of Zig has been the quality of projects built with it: TigerBeetle, Bun, Ghostty, and others. Among these, TigerBeetle stands out. I first met Joran Dirk Greef, TigerBeetle’s founder, at the first Distributed Systems Conference in Cape Town, which they hosted. Since then, I’ve had the chance to...