NATS Monthly - August 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

Moving AI to your edge? Synadia surveyed 500 edge practitioners: 86% say decision-making intelligence is moving to the edge, but only 20% can act on a problem at the device without a human in the loop. Read the report, or evaluate your own edge setup.

🎟️ Events

Upcoming events and talks including NATS.

• Inductive Automation ICC 2026 - September - Sacramento, CA
  • If you run Ignition and you’re tired of duct-taping the plant-to-cloud path together, come find the Synadia team.
• MQ Summit 2026 - October 21-22 - Haarlem, The Netherlands & Online
  • Synadia is now a Platinum Sponsor, so swing by to say hello to the team and pick up some NATS swag!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• Niklas Holmstedt from Telenor explores the possibilities of the new NATS OpenTelemetry Collector enabling telemetry to flow through the same infrastructure as the application (with proper multi-tenant isolation by default)!

⚙️ Projects

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

• ideaconnect/symfony-nats-messenger - Symfony NATS Messenger Bridge (with JetStream persistence support)
• TrogonStack/claude-agent-sdk-nats - Store Claude Agent SDK conversation transcripts in NATS JetStream
• jaab-tech/fluxrig - High-performance Edge-to-Cloud orchestration engine for business logic and protocol translation (Payments, IoT, Industrial)
• synadia-io/opentelemetry-collector-nats - NATS OpenTelemetry Collector

📖 Articles

Blog posts, tutorials, or any other text-based content about NATS.

• The cost of the stitched stack: why AI stalls before it reaches the edge - Andrew Connolly, Synadia
• Coordinating Teams of AI Agents in Real Time on NATS and JetStream - David Farah and Sven Jonscher, Cotal
• The store is now a stream - Cliff Brake, Simple IoT
• Routing ISO 8583 Without Pretending to Be a Payment Switch - Juan Andrés Antoniuk
• How to Trace NATS Message Streams with OpenTelemetry - Nawaz Dhandala, OneUptime
• We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed - Patrick Hamann and Mike Fisher, incident.io
• Building a Wallet Event Backbone with NATS JetStream: Lessons from BroSettlement’s Staging Tests - Vadym Rozov, BroLabel

🎬 Media

Audio or video recordings about or referencing NATS.

• Introducing Synadia Insights: Catch the NATS Failures Nothing Else Reports - Peter Humulock, Synadia

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.14.5
• nats.​go - v1.53.1
• nats.​net - v3.1.0
• nats.​java - v2.26.2
• nack - v0.24.0
• k8s/nats - v2.14.5
• k8s/nack - v0.35.0
• prometheus-nats-exporter - v0.20.2
• orbit.​go/jetstreamext - v0.3.2
• orbit.​go/pcgroups - v0.2.2
• orbit.​go/natssysclient - v0.2.1
• orbit.​go/natsext - v0.1.3
• orbit.​go/natscontext - v0.1.3
• orbit.​go/kvcodec - v0.1.2
• orbit.​go/counters - v0.1.2
• orbit.​go/ntf-client - v0.0.3

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Mirror Stream sync is ~2.9× slower when a Consumer cold-scans the mirror during catch-up
• Add advisory event when JetStream messages are removed from a stream
• JetStream file-store ~65x slower than memory-store on KV mirror (83% of seq space is deleted)

nats.​go

• “consumer creation response is empty” for Update on consumer using FilterSubjects

💼 Jobs

Recently posted jobs that include NATS in the tech stack.

• Nightwing Intelligence Solutions - Sr. Software Engineer - Ft George G Meade, MD
• Form3 - Senior Software Engineer (Go), US Payments (Contract) - Remote (Canada)
• GitLab - Staff Backend Engineer, Monitoring and Anomaly Detection (Monetization) - Bangalore, India
• TeamViewer - Staff Java Backend Software Engineer - Porto, Portugal