EventBus vs NATS

EventBus

[Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go (by asaskevich)

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NATS

Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system. (by nats-io)

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EventBus		NATS
	Project
-	Mentions	11
1,634	Stars	5,136
-	Growth	2.0%
0.0	Activity	9.1
7 months ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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EventBus

Posts with mentions or reviews of EventBus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning EventBus yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

NATS

Posts with mentions or reviews of NATS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
Asyncapi with Go
1 project | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2022
What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
84 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

nats: Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system
Distributed communication patterns with NATS
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2022

Install the nats.go package
Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2022
Distributed messaging with NATS
7 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2022

Now that our NATS server is running, we'll be using Go and Node.js clients to connect to it for simple demonstration. Not familiar with Go or Node? Don't worry NATS has clients available in over 40 languages!
How do I build a text editor like notepad using wails
9 projects | /r/golang | 5 Nov 2021
Plugins vs Microservices
1 project | /r/golang | 1 Nov 2021

You can build monolith applications and if they need cross communication, rely on something like Nats: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go
Modern Communication: Sockets
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2021
Subscription management in pub/sub system
3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Mar 2021

You could start by looking/reading how it is implemented in production ala https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

What are some alternatives?

When comparing EventBus and NATS you can also consider the following projects:

messagebus - Go simple async message bus

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

pubsub - A simple pubsub package for go.

Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.

dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus

go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ

structured pubsub - Publish and subscribe functionality within a single process in Go.

emitter - Emits events in Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins

guble - websocket based messaging server written in golang

Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client