NATS Monthly - April 2024

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

KubeCon EU 2024 is a wrap! If you did not have a chance to attend, be sure to read the Synadia blog post for a recap of the event and links to the recorded talks!

Did you know two-node Kubernetes is a thing? SUSE and Synadia have been working together on developing a two-node k3s solution for edge use cases. Read the SUSE blog post for a deep dive on the motivation. For those questioning how can it be done? We promise you it’s not vaporware like other claims in the market. A live demonstration was available at KubeCon EU 2024 and we will be sharing more details soon!

Are you young enough to remember the original Napster? The Synadia team made our own flavor called Natster that we demoed at KubeCon. This is our first installment of a new generation of Nothin’ but NATS applications. Read the blog post to learn more about the project and how it was built!

The stream viewer in Synadia Cloud is here! The stream viewer provides a way to filter and inspect messages in your NATS streams incrementally or in real-time. Read the blog post about the preview release and whats coming next!

Do you want to use Swift with NATS? The Synadia team has developed a new Swift client for NATS. Check it out, let us know what you think, and get involved!

🫶 Engage

Opportunities for engagement on NATS preview features, new projects, and Synadia products.

Are you using or want to use NATS for IoT use cases? Take five minutes to fill out a survey that will help the Synadia team understand the protocols you use in those environments. Two lucky participants will receive a $50 Amazon gift card!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

Jamie Gaskins has been experimenting with replacing nearly all use cases of Redis with NATS sans distributed counters and per-message TTLs. Well good news Jaime, those will be coming in the 2.11 release 🎉
Nice shout out from Diego Ciangottini live at the NATS maintainer’s talk at KubeCon EU 2024 on how it is the demo they’ve seen in a long time!
@RickDotNet wanted you to know that Blazor and NATS is cheating and a follow-up tweet with, quote, “For me, it’s not everything NATS does that is great, it’s how EASY it is to do really complicated things using NATS. NATS solves foundational gaps, really well.” ❤️