NATS Monthly - March 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

Going to KubeCon 🇳🇱? Be sure to stop by booth 486 to meet the Synadia team, talk NATS, and pick up some swag!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• Have you heard about Datasance’s Platform of Things? Emirhan Durmuş shares a rundown and explains why they chose NATS as the default messaging backend.
• Jacek G shares how Peeramid Labs shipped NSED, an “orchestrator that coordinates multiple AI agents through structured deliberation rounds.” Can you guess what the core enabling technology is?

⚙️ Projects

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

• alberthild/vainplex-openclaw - Turn OpenClaw from a smart assistant into a self-governing, learning system. Five production plugins: Cortex, Knowledge Engine, Governance, NATS EventStore, Memory.
• timeplus-io/proton PR #1111 - NATS JetStream connector
• AlexJReid/zigxll-connectors-nats - Tiny, fast RTD server for streaming values into Excel from NATS
• lithqube/nats-jetstream-claude-skills - Production-ready Claude custom skills for designing, deploying, and operating NATS JetStream messaging systems.
• M64GitHub/WireClaw - ESP32 AI agent with persistent memory and offline rule engine - chat to configure, run locally 24/7. (Telegram / Serial / NATS).

📖 Articles

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

• NATS HTTP Monitoring Endpoints: A Complete Guide - Andrew Connolly, Synadia
• Monitoring NATS: From HTTP Scrapes to System Events - Andrew Connolly, Synadia
• From Service Chaos to Detective Genius: Your Cloud-Native Investigation Toolkit - Cristhian Ferrufino
• zigxll: building Excel XLL add-ins in Zig - Alex Reid
• MQTT vs. NATS for Fleet Management: Hub-and-Spoke vs. Distributed Mesh - Andrew Connolly, Synadia
• Mirror Streams in NATS JetStream: One-Way Replication Made Simple - Peter Humulock, Synadia
• Per-Message TTL: Unlocking Ephemeral State Patterns in NATS - Peter Humulock, Synadia
• A Series: Building a Scheduled Messaging Architecture with NATS (Zero Redis) - Soohyun Kim

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.12.5
• nats.​go - v1.49.0
• nats.​js - v3.3.1
• nats.​py - v2.14.0
• nats.​net - v2.7.3
• nack - v0.22.3
• k8s/nats - v2.12.5
• k8s/nack - v0.33.2
• nex - v0.4.1
• orbit.​java/pcgcli - v0.2.0
• orbit.​java/pcg - v0.2.0
• orbit.​java/sm - v0.0.3
• orbit.​java/counters - v0.2.2

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Subscriptions
• Pass Code Suggestion , and Dropping NATS clients
• Cross-domain JetStream sourcing, how do I set that up?
• Maximum number of consumers
• Example JWT setup from the docs is not working.. at all.
• JetStream on cluster should be shared with leafnode, all using TLS. But streams aren’t visible on both ends
• Proposal: EmbeddedServer Extension API (here for custom client connection services)
• Streams marked orphan and deleted when converting standalone to cluster

nats.​py

• Unable to schedule a message in JetStream – BadRequestError: message schedules target is invalid

nats.​net.​v1

• PublishOptionsBuilder WithTimeout validation of 1 minute

jwt.​js

• Why does “encodeUser” need the full KeyPair (including Seed) of the user, but not just the Public Key?

💼 Jobs

Recently posted jobs that include NATS in the tech stack.

• Cybus GmbH - Senior Backend (Node.js) Engineer - Hamburg / Berlin / Remote
• GitLab - Backend Engineer, Knowledge Graph (Rust) - Remote, Canada; Remote, US
• Intuitive - Software Engineer 3 - Sunnyvale, CA