Introduction to NATS
NATS is a messaging platform built to meet the distributed computing needs of modern applications. It addresses distributed computing needs such as the following:
- Secure communications between services
- Service discovery
- Resiliency
- Agile development
- Scalability
- Performance
These requirements are fulfilled by the unique design of the NATS messaging framework, which comes with features such as the following:
- High performance: NATS performs better than most of the existing message broker products, including Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Lightweight: It does not need sophisticated hardware and complex deployment models to support large message volumes.
- Simple to use: It supplies a simple API to use the system.
- At most once and at least once delivery: Supports message guarantees required by applications.
- Support for event handling: It can handle event streams with better performance.
- Support for different languages...