NATS Monthly - November 2024

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

• Happy 14th birthday to NATS! On October 30th, 2010 the first Open Source commit was made to the NATS project. If NATS has impacted you in any way, please share a comment on Derek Collison’s post reflecting on the journey!

• Join us for a hands-on NATS and Synadia virtual workshop in the Asia-Pacific region! On November 20th, 2024, Nate Emerson, Thomas Fan, and Brian Goodman-Jones will host a workshop focusing on the fundamentals of NATS and Synadia. Learning about Synadia Cloud, NATS messaging patterns, JetStream, and more. Register here!

• Interested in Nothin’ but NATS demos? Synadia just launched a new Demos page with a growing collection of demos that showcase the power of NATS. Each has a deployed demo, a video interview of the lead developer, and a textual walkthrough of the architecture.

• Going to KubeCon North America 2024? Be sure to block off the NATS maintainer track talk “Nothing but NATS - Going beyond Cloud Native” for an exciting talk and demo. Also be sure to stop by the Synadia booth (P4) to meet the team!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• Mike Luan is bullish on how NATS enables a truly “client only” dev experience whether it is on the backend or the frontend, using the nats.ws client.
• Curious of Agentic AI? Tobalo was and explored leveraging PhiData and NATS.

📖 Articles

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

• Building a Job Queue With NATS.io and Go - Jakkie Koekemoer
• Deploying NATS Server with Persistent Storage Using Helm - Sajeeva Lakmal

🧑‍🎓 Resources

Learning resources, such as docs, screencasts, podcasts, and examples.

NATS Community Office Hours

• NATS tools and benchmarking with JNM! - Nate Emerson, Synadia with guest Jean-Noël Moyne, Synadia
• From NATS Ambassador to Core Contributor with Maurice - Nate Emerson, Synadia with guest Maurice van Veen, Synadia

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.10.22
• nats.c - v3.9.1
• nats.rs/async - v0.37.0
• nats.java - v2.20.4
• nats.swift - v0.4.0
• nsc - v2.10.0
• k8s/surveyor - v0.18.1
• k8s/nats - v1.2.6
• nats-surveyor - v0.7.1
• jwt - v2.7.2
• nats-box - v0.14.6

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Lame Duck Mode
• Simultaneously Support Multiple Authentication Mechanisms
• TLS termination at Application Gateway level
• What Happens When multiple Consumers share a same durable Name with different topic Filter in WorkQueue Jetstream?
• Not allowed to enable JetStream on the system account
• Offloading Consumers to Leaf Cluster for Mirrored Stream – Hub Cluster Load Impact?
• Remove deleted/purged data from bucket not possible?
• New sequence clipping behavior seems to broke sourcing from memory streams
• What is the exact meaning of “Unprocessed Messages” in the “nats consumer info” output?
• Why do not “go build” before “COPY nats-server /bin/nats-server”?
• Produce from anywhere, consume from the same availability zone
• Notify consumers about message expiry when message time to leave reaches to Max message age
• Use thousands of leaf nodes at the edge
• Running nats-server as windows service with parameters error 1053

nats.rs

• Closing the connection (async-nats)
• How to use NATS over serial?

nats.net

• Difference between SubscribeAsync vs ConsumeAsync in jetstream context
• How to connect using username/password.
• Best way to handle connection object in NATS?
• Can we create multiple jetstream consumers for a single subject

nats.net.v1

• Pull subscription is not handling messages

nsc

• Starting own managed operator
• NSC and k8s
• Allowing account owners to manage exports and imports without access to operator private keys

k8s

• Multiple Leaf Connection Ports