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Guest Post: Real-time IoT monitoring with NATS JetStream, RisingWave, and Superset

FAHAD SHAH — February 29, 2024

In the realm of IoT, real-time data processing presents specific challenges, including limited edge computing resources, network constraints, scalability considerations, and device diversity. Overcoming these obstacles requires the application of efficient edge computing techniques, robust security measures, standardized protocols, scalable management systems, and advanced data processing capabilities. By combining the strengths of NATS JetStream, RisingWave, and Superset, a powerful solution emerges for the development of reliable and scalable real-time IoT applications. Read more...

Introducing the NATS Execution Engine

KEVIN HOFFMAN — January 22, 2024

As people continue to leverage their NATS infrastructure by increasing the number of apps and services that rely on NATS, we tend to see some common patterns emerge. People end up with two different views of their infrastructure: the NATS connectivity map and the cluster-style resource views that come from their workload scheduler(s). With so many distributed applications, the infrastructure and connectivity is in place to support NATS and NATS-based applications, but is often underutilized. Read more...

Recovering Quorum After Renaming Servers

JOHN WELDON — January 20, 2024

Occasionally, a NATS cluster can lose quorum for various reasons. Here, we’ll look at one specific case, and how to recover from it.

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Streamlining Asynchronous Services with FastStream

TVRTKO STERNAK — October 23, 2023

Ever felt lost in the complexity of microservices and message queues? That’s precisely why FastStream was created. Initially, it was our solution to the challenges we faced with messaging queues in our own projects. But as it simplified our lives, we realized it could do the same for others. So, we decided to share it with the world. FastStream is a Python framework for building asynchronous services that interact with event streams like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS. Read more...

NATS Server 2.10 Release

BYRON RUTH — October 3, 2023

It’s finally here! 🤩 The NATS team is thrilled to announce the 2.10 release of the NATS Server! We want to thank everyone who contributed through discussions, raising issues, code contribution and testing early versions. ❤️ The journey to 2.10 Before diving into 2.10 itself, let’s reflect on the journey leading up to this release and why it is significant. It has been just over a year since the 2.9.x series started and a record 22 patch releases have landed since then. Read more...

NATS Server 2.9.22 Release

BYRON RUTH — September 8, 2023

The NATS maintainers are thrilled to announce the 2.9.22 release ! This brings a handful of fixes and improvements leading up to the 2.10.0 release coming later this month. We want to thank all of the people who contributed to this release through reporting issues, documentation improvements, and code contributions. As always, if you are interested in contributing, please check out all the ways you can . Before diving into 2. Read more...

NASCAR uses NATS to distribute real-time telemetry data

JEAN-NOËL MOYNE — July 31, 2023

Pushing the boundaries from the edge to the cloud at ultra-low latency: how NASCAR uses NATS to deliver real-time racing data to broadcasters, racing teams, and fans. Distributing live telemetry data NASCAR’s NextGen cars feature a host of changes including being fitted with sensors generating 60 data points hundreds of times per second for the duration of the race. This telemetry data is transmitted over UHF radio waves to the NASCAR mobile data center (literally a data center in a semi-truck trailer that goes to each track venue), where it is then ingested and retransmitted both to the racing teams and broadcasters on-site at the track but also to the AWS cloud where it is both stored for historical analysis and re-distributed in real-time to the team’s back offices and to racing fans. Read more...

NATS .NET Client v2 Alpha Released with Core NATS Support

ZIYA SUZEN — July 13, 2023

Starting in 2018 with .NET Core 2.1 , the .NET platform began to receive serious performance improvements in every major release. This excited many .NET developers, who have been enjoying faster and more efficient runtimes just by upgrading their project targets with every new .NET release. In 2021, .NET 6 became the first LTS release under Microsoft’s new .NET and .NET Core Support Policy . The original NATS .NET client, called NATS. Read more...

Release Candidate - NATS 1.0.0 Helm Chart

CALEB LLOYD — July 5, 2023

As the Kubernetes ecosystem continues to grow, installing NATS via Helm has become a very popular method. The NATS 0.x series of the Helm Chart was initially released in 2020, a full year before JetStream was even available in the NATS Server. The past 3 years have taught us that it is important to support all of the extensibility options possible in Kubernetes resources - custom Image Registries, ConfigMaps, TLS Secrets, Volumes and Mounts, Init Containers, and more. Read more...

Building a Data-Driven Healthcare Demo with NATS.io

DAVID GEE — June 26, 2023

We’re lucky to have partners and customers in healthcare and even luckier to have a team of highly skilled and talented software engineers. So when the challenge came along to build a meaningful demo for a Telehealth scenario, we couldn’t resist. No conversation on this topic would be complete without a sprinkle of AI or ML and so we posit that when used for good, these technologies can be applied to the preservation and quality of human life. Read more...