NATS Monthly - January 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

Happy Holidays and New Year! Thanks to our vibrant community for another awesome year! In case this is your “year-in-review” newsletter, be sure to check out last year’s for a plethora of links and resources!

NATS Jepsen report follow-up. ICYMI, Kyle Kingsbury published a Jepsen report for NATS 2.12.1. The Synadia team wrote a follow-up post discussing the report, what fixes or documentation clarifications have been made, and the future set of improvements planned for the NATS server.

✨ Highlights

Year-in-review highlights of the most notable articles, projects, and talks.

Distributed AI: Using NATS.io to Seamlessly Connect AI applications from Cloud to Edge - a talk by Tomasz Pietrek and Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
JetStream Anti-Patterns: Avoid these pitfalls to scale more efficiently - a blog post by Andrew Connolly, Synadia
Case Study: Real-time analytics from Edge to multiple factories with NATS and i-flow - a blog post by i-flow
Beyond Kafka: Leveraging Event-Driven Architectures with Go and NATS JetStream - a talk by Ludovico Russo, RedCarbon
High-Performance KV Store for Fintech with Akamai - a blog post by Akamai Cloud
Solving Real-World Edge Challenges With K0s, NATS, and Raspberry Pi Clusters - a talk by Prashant Ramhit, Mirantis
Building Trust in Messaging: A JetStream Re-Architecture Journey - a blog post by Sina Amininasab, Snapp!
How do embedded NATS communicate with a Go application? - a blog post by Inseob Jeon, GoSuda
NATS Pub/Sub hands on; Master This for System Design Interviews - a tutorial by Jadi
Understanding JetStream Memory Usage Patterns - a blog post by Andrew Connolly, Synadia
How Sophotech Cut Latency by 3x Migrating from RabbitMQ to NATS - a blog post by Synadia
When Failure Is Not An Option: Surviving Cloud Outages in Go - a talk by Kevin Holditch, Form3
Inside System Initiative’s Messaging Architecture - a blog post by Nick Gerace, System Initiative
Real Time Configs With NATS - a blog post by John Hooks

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

Did you know GitLab uses NATS? Steve Dischinger distills the bullet points from their architecture design document which provides a thorough evaluation between Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google PubSub, AWS Kinesis, and NATS.
Niklas Beck shares how his team is putting the “architecture for everywhere” concept to practice with NATS for their AI Agents in the Trauma Room project.

⚙️ Projects

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

luxms/pgnats - PostgreSQL extension for NATS messaging
ali-assar/NATS-Leader-Election - Go library for distributed leader election using NATS JetStream. Fast failover, platform-independent, with built-in observability.
brannn/duckdb-nats-jetstream - DuckDB extension for querying NATS JetStream message streams with SQL

📖 Articles

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

Why NATS - Byron Ruth, Synadia
A Field Guide to Running NATS on Linkerd: From Standalone to Multicluster - Ivan Porta, Buoyant

🎬 Media

Audio or video recordings about or referencing NATS.

NATS 2.12: Atomic Batch Publishing - Peter Humulock, Synadia
NATS 2.11: Consumer Pausing - Peter Humulock, Synadia

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

nats-server - v2.12.3
nats.go - v1.48.0
nats.js - v3.3.0
nats.py/nats-core - v0.1.0
nats.rs/async-nats - v0.45.0
nats.net - v2.7.0
k8s/nats - v2.12.3

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

nats.go

nats.py

nats-py to nats-core migration.

nats.net