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LatestNATS Monthly - October 2026NATS has applied for CNCF graduation! Want to create technical content about NATS? Let us know. Plus a roundup of real-world use cases and success stories.
- NATS Monthly - September 2026NATS 2.15 is released! Curious about multiplayer Tetris over NATS? Try Jetris!
- NATS Monthly - August 2026NATS v2.14.5 released! Two new NATS guest posts, the NATS OpenTelemetry Collector, and more!
- NATS Monthly - July 2026Synadia releases the NATS testing framework! Going to the Inductive Automation Conference and MQ Summit this fall? Sync up with the NATS team! Also see how Verrus runs their entire data center backbone on NATS.
- NATS Monthly - June 2026NATS hits 20k stars! RethinkConn is a wrap! Plus how do squirrels relate to NATS?
- NATS Monthly - May 2026NATS 2.14 has landed! RethinkConn 2026 is just a few weeks away. Synadia launches Insights, Protect, and the Agents SDK on the new NATS Agent Protocol. The edge eventing architecture series rolls on.
- NATS Monthly - April 2026NATS 2.14 is fast approaching! RethinkConn 2026 is happening on June 4th! A fresh guide on What is NATS? And a wide range of articles this month.
- NATS Monthly - March 2026NATS v2.12.5 released. Read how NATS is being used for AI agents, a guide on NATS monitoring, comparing MQTT and NATS for fleet management, and more!
- NATS Monthly - February 2026NATS 2.12.4 has been released! Also check out the slew of projects and reading material! Also check out the new Jobs section!
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- NATS Monthly - January 2026Happy New Year! In addition to the December updates, check out the 2025 year-in-review highlights!
- NATS Monthly - December 2025NATS KubeCon NA 2025 videos, how to deploy a scalable NATS cluster, and the NATS 2.12.1 Jepsen report.
- NATS Monthly - November 2025NATS turns 15! Meet the Synadia folks at KubeCon next week. Read how System Initiative leverages NATS, and much more!
- NATS Monthly - October 2025NATS 2.12 has been released! Check out the new plethora of Orbit libraries. Read how NATS reduces costs for AI applications, and more!
- NATS Monthly - September 2025NATS 2.12 is just around the corner! Financial services leveraging NATS continues to grow. And time to migrate off Bitnami Helm charts!
- NATS Monthly - August 2025Synadia Deploy for Kubernetes, NATS as the backbone for distributed AI systems, building sustainable edge monitoring systems, and more!
- NATS Monthly - July 2025NATS 2.11.6 is out! Check out a video on security with NATS, new JetStream videos, and a plethora of other community content!
- NATS Monthly - June 2025Preview of a new Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) workflow for Synadia Cloud. A new community Zig client for NATS. A handful of notable mentions and content to catch up on!
- NATS Monthly - May 2025Synadia commits to maintaining NATS (Apache 2.0). Check out the RethinkConn 2025 recap, and a variety of new projects, articles, and media to explore!
- NATS Monthly - April 2025NATS 2.11 is released, RethinkConn 2025 was a success, and a plethora of new projects and articles in the NATS ecosystem!
- NATS Monthly - March 2025Get ready for RethinkConn 2025! The Slack community hit 10k+ members. Check out the NATS v2.11.0-RC.2 release!
- NATS Monthly - February 2025RethinkConn is coming in March! Explore the new Orbit libraries. Learn how NATS is used in the world's largest distributed GPU cluster. And much more!
- NATS Monthly - January 2025Happy New Year! In addition to the December updates, check out the 2024 year-in-review highlights!
- NATS Monthly - December 2024The KubeCon NA 2024 maintainer's talk video is up! NATS 🤝 MQTT. A distributed RAG architecture with NATS, and more!
- NATS Monthly - November 2024Happy 14th birthday to NATS! Check out the new "Nothin' but NATS" demo page. Finally, be sure to meet the NATS team at KubeCon NA 2024!
- NATS Monthly - October 2024NATS 2.10.21 has been released. A new office hours around upcoming 2.11 features. And NATS categorized in the "big data" space?"
- NATS Monthly - September 2024Various articles, releases, and discussions, Bring Your Own NATS, and prepping for KubeCon.
- NATS Monthly - August 2024.NET and JavaScript client updates, new screencasts, compelling office hours discussions, and exciting Synadia Cloud news!
- NATS Monthly - July 2024NATS community office hours with special guests! An auth-callout deep-dive video and local-first application design?
- NATS Monthly - June 2024Check out a Synadia-hosted NATS workshop on microservice architecture in the Asia Pacific region! Also, ICYMI Synadia Cloud now offers an HTTP Gateway for Key-Value access and messaging!
- NATS Monthly - May 2024Announcing the Synadia Cloud HTTP Gateway! The second NATS 2.11 preview has been released! Also read up on multi-region stretch clusters and more!
- NATS Monthly - April 2024KubeCon EU 2024 is a wrap! Be sure to check out the announcements and links! Have you been waiting for a Stream Viewer in Synadia Cloud, it is now available!
- NATS Monthly - March 2024The first NATS 2.11 preview has been released! ICYMI the NATS community office hours have rebooted! Also, Synadia closed their Series B round to push NATS to the next level.
- NATS Monthly - February 2024RethinkConn 2024 has kicked off the year of NATS! Check out the exciting updates, our new NATS Ambassador, and all the new content!
- NATS Monthly - January 2024Happy New Year! In addition to the December updates, check out the 2023 year-in-review highlights!
- NATS Monthly - December 2023November was a fun month with meeting folks at KubeCon, planning for upcoming events, and making a plethora of releases!
- NATS Monthly - November 2023Happy 13th Birthday to NATS! October has been packed with a variety of content, talks, and releases! Also Synadia Cloud has been made generally available!
- NATS Monthly - October 2023September has been a busy month! This includes the NATS 2.10 release, a LOT of releases across clients and ecosystem projects, and variety of new resources and discussions!
- NATS Monthly - September 2023August has brought a handful of announcements from Synadia, three new NATS.fm episodes, a plethora of articles and mentions, and lively discussions on GitHub!
- NATS Monthly - August 2023This past month brings a slew of updates including 1.0.0 NATS Helm chart, stability of the v2 JetStream client API, the inaugural episode of the NATS.fm podcast! Also check out how NASCAR is using NATS for real-time ingest and distribution of telemetry data!
- NATS Monthly - July 2023Happy July! This past month had quite a bit of activity with releases, content, and discussions. Also check out several pre-release efforts to engage with!
- NATS Monthly - June 2023A new monthly cadence! A new NATS+Apache Spark connector, Synadia Control Plane went GA, and several engagement opportunities among many other things!
- NATS Weekly #77A .NET client release! Check out two brand new community projects, one being a MongoDB CDC connector and the other being a Kubernetes operator for decentralized auth mode! Finally, learn how NATS can act as a Web application backend.
- NATS Weekly #76A patch release for the Java client! Also, the NATS roadmap has been updated! 🙌 Watch how NATS KV can be used in a full-text search application. Finally, check out the recently published KubeCon EU talk on NATS!
- NATS Weekly #75A new minor release for the Prometheus NATS exporter! Join us for the inaugural (restart) of NATS office hours happening this week. Finally, check out a demo for a new Synadia product in the works 😉.
- NATS Weekly #74A new NATS Helm chart released! Check out the NATS server 2.9.16 release blog post. Also read two articles about NATS from Streamdal and HarperDB!
- NATS Weekly #73NATS server v2.9.16 has been released! Read how Modzy replaced Kafka with NATS as their central event streaming platform. Finally, check out a Systems Distributed talk by the NATS creator on the vision and prediction of connectivity.
- NATS Weekly #72A new Java client release and newly added support for NATS as an event sink for TimescaleDB. Also, curious how NATS compares to Kafka in terms of total cost of ownership? Finally, don't miss a newly released talk by Derek Collison!
- NATS Weekly #71Kubernetes Surveyor patch release, NATS integration in Microcks 1.7.0, and a couple of useful documentation updates! Also the Synadia team is hosting two sessions at KubeCon EU 2023 all about NATS!
- NATS Weekly #70Go and Rust client releases as well as Surveyor! Also check out two great recordings from the IoT Day Slam '23 featuring David Gee and Todd Beets from Synadia!
- NATS Weekly #69A Java client as well as the nsc CLI and Go nkeys library releases! Also the Chainguard folks have added us as an official image in theory repository! Finally, check out the Sandstorm blog on how NATS can be used as primary data storage 😎
- NATS Weekly #68C, Deno, Node, and WebSocket client releases! Check out Part Two of the NATS + SCADA series. And check out a Twitch feed on how to build a schema registry leveraging the new (preview) services API!
- NATS Weekly #67NATS server v2.9.15 released along with the Rust client and Helm chart! Register for IoT SlamDay to learn how NATS can simplify industrial automation! Also, check out the new screencast on the new NATS services API!
- NATS Weekly #66A light week, however we do have several releases for various clients and the Kubernetes NATS operator.
- NATS Weekly #65K8s operator releases along with a new NATS Streaming to JetStream data migration tool! Also, do you want to know how to integrate NATS with SCADA? We have a video for you :) Finally, check out all the active discussions happening and participate!
- NATS Weekly #64Deno, Rust, and Java client releases as well as an update to the NATS Helm chart! Also check out the article from our friends at Fly.io on how they leverage NATS! Finally, did you know that Clickhouse supports NATS as a backend for declaring tables?
- NATS Weekly #63NATS server v2.9.14 released along with various other packages! A handful of new articles about NATS! Also check out a new IoT Community Masterclass for global edge fleet management with NATS!
- NATS Weekly #62A variety of client and k8s releases, a new Python framework leveraging NATS, and a new ADR discussion for user-defined stream and consumer metadata!
- NATS Weekly #61Please fill out the NATS Streaming migration survey! A handful of client releases this week along with a fantastic announcement by the HarperDB team on how they are leveraging NATS!
- NATS Weekly #60Java, Deno, WebSockets, and JavaScript client releases! Read about a new Python microservices framework called Panini! And learn how to configure subject-mapped stream partitions.
- NATS Weekly #59NATS server v2.9.11 and v0.26.0 of the Rust client have been released! Also check out the Rust key-value introductory example and how to configure mutual TLS in a Go program with an embedded server!
- NATS Weekly #58Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! There are a handful of updates and a bunch of "best of" resources from 2022! Buckle up.
- NATS Weekly #57Deno, JavaScript, and WebSocket client releases with support for the new Service API! A new featured Java "KV Intro" NATS by Example. Also check out a new Rethink Connectivity talk on dynamic user permissions!
- NATS Weekly #56NATS Server, Helm chart, and nsc releases! Also a new Rethink Connectivity video on how to achieve "dynamic permissions" with decentralized auth. Also check out a short example on how simply it is to use Protobuf with NATS.
- NATS Weekly #55New releases for the Go, Deno, WebSocket, and JavaScript clients! Wonder how to get started with NATS native WebSockets support? And learn about the new set of subject mapping functions.
- NATS Weekly #54NATS v2.9.8 released along with Java, Rust, and Deno client releases as well as several k8s component releases! A new community blog post showcasing JetStream's KV store as well as a NATS blog post on how to achieve "infinite message deduplication with JetStream." Plus a fun podcast about one of Synadia's own, Jeremy Saenz!
- NATS Weekly #53The v2.9.7 NATS server and v0.23.0 Rust (async) client released! All of the RethinkConn 2022 videos are available along with the slide deck! A handful of interesting discussions along with a new community project called nats-watch!
- NATS Weekly #52This newsletter has turned one 🥳 ! Two fresh KubeCon and React Summit talks are now available! Also a handful of client library updates in Java, .NET, Rust, and Go!
- NATS Weekly #51NATS Server v2.9.6 released, a plethora of client releases, the CLI, and the Prometheus NATS exporter! The agenda has been posted RethinkConn 2022 and only two days remain to join and partake in the interactive demos!
- NATS Weekly #50Happy Birthday to NATS! v2.9.4 of the NATS server has been released along with v1.19 and v2.16.3 for the Go and Java clients, respectively. Also check out the link to the updated NATS roadmap!
- NATS Weekly #49k8s NATS 0.8.2 update, a couple of upcoming talks at Reactive Summit and KubeCon, and a handful of documentation improvements! Also check out Marmot that replaced their replication implementation to use NATS JetStream!
- NATS Weekly #48NATS v2.9.3 released which addresses a few issues (including two low-risk CVEs), Go, C, and Elixir client library updates, and a new draft, experimental API for JetStream-based request-reply semantics!
- NATS Weekly #47The v0.21.0 async Rust and v2.16.1 Java clients were released with more KV and Object Store API improvements and optimizations! Also don't miss the article on how the Matrix Dendrite project migrated to NATS from Kafka. Want to get acquainted with the key-value layer? Check out the new KV example for Go!
- NATS Weekly #46NATS v2.9.2 released with a few fixes and improved fan-out performance. The Python and Ruby clients have been updated with full support for the NATS 2.9 features. A lot of great articles, a new podcast about NATS and a new Rethink Connectivity screencast on leaf nodes you don't want to miss!
- NATS Weekly #45The server gets a patch release, a new version of the C client has been released to support NATS 2.9 features, and a handful of examples have been examples have been added.
- NATS Weekly #44This week, the NATS server 2.9 announcement post has been featured on the NATS blog, the majority of the official client libraries have new releases supporting the 2.9 server features, and the newsletter is getting a tweak to put the Q&A efforts to writing docs and other resources!
- NATS Weekly #43NATS server v2.9.0 released! Read about why Personal.AI choose NATS as a core component in their tech stack.
- NATS Weekly #42A Rust client release! Check out episode 6 of Rethink Connectivity! And, what are the options to defer message redeliveries for a consumer?
- NATS Weekly #41Deno, JavaScript, and WebSocket client releases! Check out the regional and cross-region stream examples! Also, what do all the advertise config options do?
- NATS Weekly #40Python client and k8s Helm chart releases! Should NATS invest in supporting MQTTv5? And, if I wanted to contribute to NATS what are my options?
- NATS Weekly #39A NATS surveyor release! Watch how to build a NATS supercluster on the Rethink Connectivity screencast! And, can a stream be placed across two clusters?
- NATS Weekly #38Rust client and k8s Helm chart releases! What exactly does the allow_responses permission do? And, check out a community member's "NATS playground" repo!
- NATS Weekly #37Java, Ruby, and k8s Helm chart releases! Read about how to programmatically create nkeys and JWTs in Node! And, remind what this republish feature is again? Also Byron Ruth (the original creator of this newsletter) joined Synadia!
- NATS Weekly #36A k8s Helm chart release! Read about how OpenFaaS is migrating to JetStream! And how do you choose a push vs pull consumer?
- NATS Weekly #35Rust client and k8s Helm chart releases! Check out the new NATS by Example website bootstrapped with five examples! Also, wonder what a whiteboard app backed by NATS looks like?
- NATS Weekly #34Rust, Java, and Python client releases! What exactly is the $G account? And, how large of a deduplication window can you have?
- NATS Weekly #33Java client release! Synadia launches a new screencast called Rethink Connectivity! Read how wasmCloud leverages NATS for global distribution. And, what exactly does "exactly-once" mean?
- NATS Weekly #32.NET client and k8s Helm chart releases! A new high-performance community .NET client! Also, a new site that hosts runnable examples for NATS!
- NATS Weekly #31Rust and .NET client releases! Watch how Form3 leverages NATS for their FinTech platform! Also, what does the unique_tag config option do for JetStream?
- NATS Weekly #30Java and Ruby client releases! What exactly is a slow consumer? And, how can you update the replicas or location of a stream?
- NATS Weekly #29Java client release! A deep drive video on the "state of NATS" by a core maintainer. Also, how are JetStream config, account, and stream limits related?
- NATS Weekly #28NATS server v2.8.4 released along with the Rust, Go, Python, Deno, JavaScript, and Websocket clients! Want a seamless way to bridge Caddy with NATS? Also what exactly does the stream republish feature do?
- NATS Weekly #27Java, Python, Deno, JavaScript, and WebSocket client releases! A new article on building event-driven systems leveraging NATS. And, learn how decentralized auth JWTs are managed and how keys can be rotated!
- NATS Weekly #26Rust, Elixir client releases along with the k8s Helm chart! Also how does a mirror behave when a mesage is deleted from the source? Also, which AWS EBS volume is appropriate for JetStream data?
- NATS Weekly #25NATS server v2.8.2 and Rust, Go, .NET, and Java client releases! Read about how Argo Events adopted JetStream for their message bus. Also, learn how to encrypt messages using the "age" Go package.
- NATS Weekly #24Rust and Java client releases! Also a placeholder repo for a possible Zig client?! And, what is this new deterministic token partitioning feature?
- NATS Weekly #23NATS Server v2.8.0 has been released! Along with the Rust client, CLI, and k8s Helm charts! A new community slide deck for learning the concepts of NATS! And, what are all the ways you can run a NATS server?
- NATS Weekly #22CLI and nsc releases! A new article on how to leverage NATS surveyor. And, what is the expected behavior of network interruptions?
- NATS Weekly #21Go and Python client releases! Two more articles by a community member on how to leverage nats-top and the CLI! Also, how can one model a "passage of time" stream?
- NATS Weekly #20k8s Helm chart release! Check out a new community project called HyperTrade. Also read about why Fly.io choose NATS over Consul for their use case.
- NATS Weekly #19k8s Helm chart and nats-top releases! Watch a technical overview of JetStream at a recent meetup by a NATS maintainer! Also, did you know NATS can run on k3s at the edge? And, how do you implement the saga pattern using NATS?
- NATS Weekly #18C client and k8s Helm chart releases! What does my application need to consider regarding message order? And, what are some strategies for versioning message schema?
- NATS Weekly #17NATS Server v2.7.4 released along with Go, Java, and Elixir client releases. How can inactivie durable consumers be detected? And, is NATS synchronous or asynchronous?
- NATS Weekly #16v0.13.2 k8s Helm chart released! What happens when my NATS client disconnects? What exactly is the stream and consumer sequence number?
- NATS Weekly #15NATS Server v2.7.3 released! A great set of questions this week, including "how big should a NATS cluster be?" "How can I bridge the HTTP with NATS?" And, "what is the purpose of the pull consumer timeout?"
- NATS Weekly #14Multiple client releases as well as the k8s Helm chart! A new project called by AsyncJobs by a core NATS contributor! What should be considered with the pull consumer batch size?
- NATS Weekly #13Rust, Ruby, and k8s Helm chart releases! How does an interest-based stream work exactly? Also, gRPC is all the rage, but how does it compare to NATS?
- NATS Weekly #12NATS Server v2.7.2, .NET, Deno, JavaScript, and WebSocket client updates! Have you heard about the Simple IoT project? Get introduced to the .NET client through a community member's YouTube playlist! Also, what kind of publisher ordering guarantees can be achieved?
- NATS Weekly #11NATS server v2.7.1 released along with the Python client, and k8s Helm chart. What is the process for scaling up the stream replicas? And, what is the right balance of streams and subjects per stream?
- NATS Weekly #10Deno, JavaScript, WebSocket, and Rust client releases! Read first of an 11-part series on distributed messaging with NATS by a community member! Also, what are my options for subscribing to multiple subjects in my application?
- NATS Weekly #9NATS server v2.7.0, k8s v0.11.0, and more releases! JetStream has been added to the OpenMessaging benchmark repo! Also, should I need or put an L4 load balancer in front of NATS?
- NATS Weekly #8Java and .NET client releases with experimental Key-Value support! Watch a throwback "NATS Connect Live!" presentation using NATS on the power grid. Also a thorough article on grokking NATS consumers!
- NATS Weekly #7Learn and watch a demo about how to benchmark your environment using the NATS CLI! Are you a NATS end-user? Take the annual survey!
- NATS Weekly #6.5This is part two of #6 edition focused on more "Recently asked questions". Get insights in designing subject hiearchies, how R3 memory streams can tolerate a NATS cluster restart, and why you don't need a distributed task framework with NATS!
- NATS Weekly #6v1.4.0 Elixir client release as well as v1.1.0 of the NATS-Kafka bridge. Check out a new community project brings RPC via GraphQL over NATS. Also what is the maximum length a subject can be?
- NATS Weekly #5New community NATS client for PHP! Watch and learn about "mutually trusted NGS credentials" in a new video by a NATS core maintrainer. Also read about what the new stream Msg-Rollup header is used for.
- NATS Weekly #4nsc v2.5.0 released along with a patch release for nats-jsm-bridge fixing the log4j vulnerability! Also learn a simple pattern for adding a validation service in front of a stream!
- NATS Weekly #3NATS server v2.6.6, CLI v0.0.28, and k8s v0.10.0 released! Peak into the design decisions that when into Key-Value store by reading the architecture decision record. Also a new community NATS client written in Crystal!
- NATS Weekly #2New documentation walkthroughs for "Running a NATS service" and the experimental support for "Key-Value Store"! Also check out a community project called Panini, a Python microframework for NATS. Check our Adelina Simion talk about how Form3 leverages NATS as GopherCon UK 2021!
- NATS Weekly #1NATS server v2.6.5 released along with JavaScript, .NET, and Python client releases! Also a guest author on the NATS blog talking about microservices who also recently wrote a book all about building microservices platforms with NATS!
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