Summary
In this chapter, we discussed the concepts of the NATS messaging platform by going through the NATS protocol, messaging models, clustering, monitoring, and security with a few practical examples. We also covered some of the advantages of NATS and how it compares to other messaging platforms, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, and gRPC. This knowledge helps developers and architects understand the NATS messaging technology concepts and how it works in the real world so that they can build effective enterprise platforms while using NATS messaging. This chapter concludes the first section of this book, where we discussed the basic concepts of the microservice architecture, messaging technologies, and the NATS technology.
In the next section, we will discuss how to use this knowledge to design a microservice architecture alongside the NATS messaging platform. In the next chapter, we will discuss how to use the NATS messaging platform in a microservice architecture for inter-service communication...