Advantages of using NATS for inter-service communication
NATS was designed with a purpose. That purpose is inter-service communication. All the design decisions and performance improvements that have been made to the NATS ecosystem were done while keeping this core feature in mind. Before NATS, message broker solutions were mainly used for asynchronous, semi real-time, batch-based use cases and were considered as legacy components. But with the introduction of NATS, these traditional views on the message broker solutions were dismantled and people started utilizing it for their main real-time applications and use cases. The following is a list of advantages that NATS provides that can be utilized in a microservice architecture for inter-service communication:
- NATS supports both request-reply and event-based communication models to support designing applications for both real-time and semi-real-time use cases.
- Support for 40+ client types allows microservices to follow the...