NATS
The Real-Time Communication Fabric for Distributed Applications
NATS is a high-performance, open-source messaging system designed for building modern distributed systems across cloud, on-premise, edge, and IoT environments. It supports pub/sub, request/reply, and streaming with persistence via JetStream, all through a single lightweight binary with sub-millisecond latency. Official and community clients are available for over 45 programming languages and platforms.
NATS provides a single binary that unifies pub/sub, request/reply, streaming, key-value, and object storage with minimal resource usage, supporting topology expansion via leaf nodes and superclusters without downtime.
developers and platform engineers building distributed systems across cloud and edge environments
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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