Advantages of NATS
So far, we have discussed the features of the NATS messaging system and how these features can be configured with a few examples. In this section, we'll discuss the advantages of NATS in general and its advantages when comparing it with other popular messaging platforms. The following is a set of advantages of NATS as a messaging system (or message broker) in general:
- High performance: NATS has the best performance compared to many other brokers, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ. It can process millions of messages per second within a single server with moderate hardware. It can reduce hardware costs as well as network and management costs.
- Resilient: NATS provides automatic scaling and self-healing capabilities to build a resilient messaging platform for users by hiding internal node failures. Also, it allows you to scale the servers up and down according to the load without letting the clients know about these changes.
- Secure: NATS provides...