NATS
NATS.io is an open-source, high-performance, and lightweight messaging system designed for cloud-native applications, IoT, and microservices architectures. It acts as a connective tissue, enabling distributed systems to communicate through a simple, secure, and always-available…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- NATS.io was created to address the complexity, operational overhead, and performance limitations of traditional enterprise messaging systems in modern distributed, cloud-native environments. Its aim was to provide a simple, secure, and highly performant 'dial-tone' for inter-service communication, without the complexity of ensuring-delivery or state management, which could be layered on top.
- Platforms
- various embedded systems, docker, macos, kubernetes, linux, windows
Related technologies
Notable users
- Synadia (primary maintainer)
- Dell EMC
- Cisco
- Workday
- Siemens
- GE Digital
- Many small to medium enterprises leveraging cloud-native stacks
- Pivotal Software (now VMware Tanzu)