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Beyond Kafka & RabbitMQ: Why NATS is the Future of Microservices Messaging

What if your messaging system was 60 times lighter than Kafka? Discover NATS, the 10MB binary that scales from edge devices to a multi-cloud super cluster.

Beyond Kafka & RabbitMQ: Why NATS is the Future of Microservices Messaging
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The challenge of scaling messaging for massive data

A real-world project shipping massive data from Volkswagen plants to the cloud revealed the scaling limitations of existing messaging solutions.

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Understanding the fundamentals of messaging systems

Messaging systems decouple senders and receivers, enabling various communication patterns and message delivery guarantees like "at most once" or "exactly once".

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Introducing NATS for cloud-native and edge computing

NATS is a simple, high-performance CNCF messaging project designed to connect applications seamlessly from the cloud to the edge.

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How NATS works with subject-based messaging

NATS uses named communication channels called subjects, where publishers send messages and subscribers listen for them.

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Why NATS is significantly lighter than Kafka

The NATS server is a single 10MB binary, making it 60 times lighter than a comparable Kafka image and ideal for resource-constrained environments.

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Benchmarking NATS performance and low latency

NATS is built for speed, achieving throughput of millions of messages per second with nanosecond-level latency for its core messaging functionality.

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Scaling NATS from clusters to edge leaf nodes

NATS scales from a single server to multi-region superclusters and extends to the edge using independent leaf nodes for low-latency local communication.

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Ensuring message persistence with NATS JetStream

JetStream is the native persistence engine for NATS, providing "exactly once" delivery guarantees, message replay, and stream mirroring for both cloud and edge.

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Live demo of leaf nodes, load balancing, and JetStream

A hands-on demonstration shows how to connect a leaf node, publish messages, use subscriber groups for load balancing, and persist data with JetStream.

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Exploring open source projects using NATS

Learn about open source projects from Zeiss that use NATS for features like multi-tenancy and authentication in a real-world context.

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