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Wow. It’s been a busy summer so far, and it’s only half over! As product manager for NATS, this is my first blog post, and fortunately it comes with some great news. In case you missed the announcement at GopherCon 2016 in Denver last week, we just released a major new addition to the NATS family: NATS Streaming . Why NATS Streaming? Since we formed our dedicated NATS team at Apcera in July of last year, the #1 comment we’ve received from the user community is something like this: “Wow, we love how easy NATS is to set up and develop with. Read more...

Buzzwords are everywhere in our industry. “Microservices”, “Serverless computing”, “Nanoservices”, “Containerized” - you could fill a whole blog post just with these overused phrases. If you cut through the terminology flavor of the month, there are some very important common thread for application developers. One is simplicity. Regardless of what architectural approach you’re using - and what you may or may not refer to it as - you want it just work. Read more...

No Technology is an Island - no matter how cool & innovative you think it is. Another way to say it would be: if you don’t participate in a broader ecosystem you will perish. Whether the developer has their favorite toolchain, or a customer wants to incorporate it into their existing IT infrastructure, people will demand integration. One of life’s best lessons is simple things tend to win. So that is why we are so excited to update everyone about the progress the NATS community has made in a few short weeks since the launch of our Connector Framework. Read more...

NATS as the IoT mobile messaging system for an earthquake early warning network I’m a programmer. I like to find difficult problems to solve, and work on effective solutions to these problems. We’ve all seen earthquakes covered in the news, sadly, , and earthquakes are on the rise globally. The average frequency and magnitude of earthquakes has increased recently, and more people than ever are living in urban areas which are dangerous during earthquakes. Read more...

Our NATS-powered Validation Services in Action I’d like to focus for this blog on what NATS has helped us to achieve. There are a whole set of other great entries on this site looking at various aspects of technical implementations, and the NATS community as a whole is incredibly responsive and helpful; so if you have questions about how to do something just have a read around here, and you can always ask a question in the NATS Slack channel for pretty much immediate gratification. Read more...

The Linux Foundation’s OpenIoT Summit was held in San Diego in April, and for those of you who attended and maybe went home with some swag, you’ll remember the NATS team had a booth. What you may not remember a month later are the details of Larry McQueary’s overview of NATS at one of the speaking sessions . As a refresher, the recording of the talk is now available for viewing on YouTube. Read more...

NATS is outstanding at moving data between endpoints - but what kinds of endpoints? You may have legacy applications that use some proprietary data sources, or perhaps you are migrating from another messaging technology onto NATS. For cases like these, you’ll want to take advantage of the NATS Connector Framework . The NATS Connector Framework The NATS Connector Framework provides a foundation to build a connector - an application that moves data into and out of NATS. Read more...

The REST to NATS proxy project sohlich/nats-proxy is the micro framework that provides a bridge between HTTP and NATS. To introduce the problem, we first compare the HTTP and NATS communication models. The table below represents the matching of HTTP and NATS concepts and what do they provide. HTTP NATS Request/Response Request/Reply synchronous communication Websocket Publish/Subscribe real-time asynchronous communication As you can see, the NATS provides both synchronous and asynchronous communication between clients. Read more...

In the context of a submittal to the Samsung Maker’s Against Drought Challenge (more on that here ) extended hackathon, my team has developed a partial solution to the very serious California drought crisis. I say partial since this problem is so vast that many solutions are required to operate collaboratively to fully solve it. The solution utilizes physical water system monitoring and control with Samsung ARTIK 10 IoT modules, and a Particle Photon module running the arduino-nats NATS client. Read more...