Mar 3 · 8 min read · Message Queue Tools: RabbitMQ, Redis Streams, NATS, and Kafka Compared Message queues decouple producers from consumers, smooth out traffic spikes, and let you build systems where components can fail independently. But "just add a queue" is deceptive...
Join discussionFeb 16 · 10 min read · NATS JetStream Consumer Orchestration Patterns When you're building distributed systems that process millions of messages daily, the way you orchestrate consumers becomes critical. I've seen teams struggle with uneven workload distribution, duplicate...
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Feb 12 · 2 min read · NATS Messaging System: Cloud-Native Communication The System Crash That Taught Me About Queues Black Friday. Our servers melted. Then we discovered message queues. Everything changed. Table of Contents Async Architecture 2026 Core Concepts 5 Key Pat...
Join discussionAug 14, 2025 · 6 min read · Other technologies used: NextJS, It started on weekends, as a way to learn and build at the same time, "I bet I could build something better." A few months later, I'm staring at a distributed system with five microservices, event-driven communication...
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Jun 9, 2025 · 11 min read · NATS Topologies for Distributed Systems In the first part of our NATS Cluster Architectures series, we established robust foundations with regional clusters, covering single-node and three-node NATS deployments. Now, we're ready to expand our horizon...
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May 30, 2025 · 8 min read · Why does NATS topology matter? NATS topology refers to the way your NATS servers are arranged and connected. Unlike many messaging systems with more rigid deployment models, NATS offers remarkable flexibility. You're not shoehorned into a one-size-fi...
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May 23, 2025 · 7 min read · Beginning with NATS In the world of distributed systems, event driven architecture, EDA, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for building scalable and resilient applications. At the heart of many EDA implementations lies a robust messaging system, and...
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May 16, 2025 · 8 min read · What is a NATS Subject? NATS is a location transparent messaging technology built around foundational Pub/Sub semantics. That means it doesn’t matter if a publisher is in one hemisphere, while a subscriber is in the opposite global hemisphere. As lon...
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May 9, 2025 · 5 min read · What is NATS? The technology landscape is full of message brokers and event/message buses: Kafka, Event Hub, Pulsar, SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and more in no particular order. In this crowded space, NATS stands out as a unique perspective of the connectiv...
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Mar 27, 2025 · 3 min read · What if I told you that in a world full of firewalls, NATs, and relays, there's a way to connect peer-to-peer directly*—like an invisible handshake between two strangers in the multiverse?* Enter Libp2p WebRTC, where browsers become first-class netwo...
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