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Recently, I was building an application where I wanted to take event driven approach for async communication between the microservices. Usually I would use Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams or a managed solution like AWS SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub but this time I wanted to keep my implementation easy and cost minimal yet not affect my scalability or increase technical debt for the future. After few hops on StackShare, I found NATS as a popular alternative and after trying it out, I really liked it. That evening I migrated everything from Apache Kafka to NATS. So, in this article we'll learn what NATS is and how to get started with it.
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!
Recently, I was building an application where I wanted to take event driven approach for async communication between the microservices. Usually I would use Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams or a managed solution like AWS SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub but this time I wanted to keep my implementation easy and cost minimal yet not affect my scalability or increase technical debt for the future. After few hops on StackShare, I found NATS as a popular alternative and after trying it out, I really liked it. That evening I migrated everything from Apache Kafka to NATS. So, in this article we'll learn what NATS is and how to get started with it.
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!
Recently, I was building an application where I wanted to take event driven approach for async communication between the microservices. Usually I would use Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis Streams or a managed solution like AWS SNS, Google Cloud Pub/Sub but this time I wanted to keep my implementation easy and cost minimal yet not affect my scalability or increase technical debt for the future. After few hops on StackShare, I found NATS as a popular alternative and after trying it out, I really liked it. That evening I migrated everything from Apache Kafka to NATS. So, in this article we'll learn what NATS is and how to get started with it.
As I'm using MacOS, I installed it with brew.