NATS Monthly - April 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

NATS 2.14 is approaching! The first release candidate has been published. New features like high-speed batch ingest, cron support for message scheduling, consumer sequence reset, and more will land in this release! Take it for a spin and share your feedback in the NATS Slack!

Get ready for RethinkConn 2026! Join us virtually on June 4th for a half-day packed with architectural deep dives, real-world NATS use cases, and live demos. Check out the blog post including something new this year happening a week after the event. Be sure to sign-up!

NATS interactive guide. Need to get your team members up to speed on NATS or convince your technical leadership on how NATS can simplify your architecture? Check out whatisnats.com for a thorough interactive guide that also answers questions like “why not HTTP?” and “how does NATS compare with X?”

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

Tobi Ogundiyan shares how they use a simple, but powerful scatter-gather pattern NATS enables at SpaceScale to simplify scheduling of microVM workloads across a fleet of nodes.
Read a short summary on Rakesh Suvvari’s Master’s thesis: “Scalable Edge-Cloud Architecture for Automated Personalization Pipeline for Fall Detection.” After benchmarking HTTPS, Kafka, and NATS based architectures, guess which was best 😉.
Dominik Tornow from ResonateHQ reflects on NATS having all the right primitives to implement a durable execution harness. Looking forward to the results!

⚙️ Projects

Community created projects, integrations, or discussions in the NATS ecosystem.

galaxy-io/gnat - TUI client for NATS
jnmoyne/js-traffic-history - Tool to create a history of NATS JetStream message traffic from the data in the streams. (see the LinkedIn post for context)
ideaconnect/php-nats-jetstream-client - Async-first NATS and JetStream client for PHP 8.2+
kaustavdm/nats-skill - Claude Code skill for developing with NATS
TrogonStack/trogonai - Translates Agent Client Protocol (ACP) messages between stdio and NATS
JaredCluff/nuntius - Nuntius is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects Claude Code to NATS