NATS Monthly - February 2025

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

RethinkConn 2025 is happening on March 20th! Join us for the largest NATS community event of the year! Building something interesting with NATS? Submit a lightning talk so we can showcase your work!

NATS extensions and the future of clients! The NATS maintainers at Synadia have been building a new suite of Open Source libraries called Orbit that augment the core NATS clients with additional features. Check out the blog post for details and links to the Orbit repositories. Join the #orbit NATS Slack channel to get involved!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• Did you know that Kuzco leverages NATS to power the world’s largest distributed GPU cluster? Pretty cool 😎

⚙️ Projects

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

• OpenUEM - An Open Source Unified Endpoint Manager (with NATS at its core)
• tabalo/gogent - Agentic AI workers explicitly in Go

📖 Articles

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

• Running NATS on a FreeBSD Jail - Simone Vellei
• NATS at System Initiative - Fletcher Nichol, System Initiative
• Integrating NATS and JetStream: Modernizing Our Internal Communication - Mykhailo Anhelskyi, Brokee
• NATS: The Secret Weapon Behind Vitrifi’s Workflow Automation Platform - Juan P. Genovese, Vitrifi

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.10.25
• nats.​node - v2.29.1
• nats.​deno - v1.29.1
• nats.​ws - v1.30.1
• nats.​net - v2.5.7
• k8s/nats - v1.2.10
• nkeys.​js - v2.0.2
• orbit.​go/natssysclient - v0.1.1
• orbit.​go/natsext - v0.1.1
• orbit.​go/natscontext - v0.1.1
• orbit.​rs/nats-extra - v0.2.0

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Recording Connection & Disconnection events.
• Need info on how to handle 1 billion keys
• Need Some General Info Regarding Client Design & partitioning
• Removing records from kv that exceed the limit
• KV storage operations timeout [v2.10.20]
• Permissions for request/reply requester
• Does NATS support exponential backoff consumption retry？
• Is there a timeline for 2.11?
• Is non-clustered JetStream possible with Gateways?

nats.​go

• Subscribe to Consumer without mentioning JetStream name
• Read until end of topic

nats.​py

• Expected release date of the library for latest version of nats (2.10) with announced features

nats.​net

• Authentication using JWT
• Need some clarification on .net connection object in c#, slow consumers & Flow Control
• Huge Performance Drop observed with large payloads of around 300KB or more

nsc

• Best practices for managing accounts/users between environments?

k8s

• How to specify Tolerations, Affinity or Node Selector in NATS Helm Chart?

nex

• nex.config.json not working ?