The nervous system for agentic AI

Architect your system --> Our vision for agents

Connect your agents, devices, and services on one fabric across cloud and edge.

identity, connectivity, and discovery for agentic and distributed systems.

Cryptographic Agent Identity

Verifiable, time-boxed permissions. Revoked instantly, never static.

End-to-End Agent Communication

Secure messaging across clouds, edges, and trust boundaries.

Distributed Context & Data Flow

Share memory and hand off work without a single point of failure.

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DISTRIBUTED REALITY

Architect your infrastructure to work for AI agents and edge devices

From AI agents coordinating across regions and runtimes to factory-floor devices operating autonomously — the patterns that got us to the cloud won't get us past it.

Cloud-Centric Systems

Modern Distributed Systems

Cumbersome discovery via HTTP/DNS

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Agents and services live anywhere and are easily discoverable

Limited 1:1 communication

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M:N communication — agents, devices, and services on one fabric

Pull-based semantics

✓

Push, pull, and fan-in/out — react to events, don't poll for them

Perimeter-based security models

✓

Decentralized, zero-trust security

Routing via gateways, proxies, load balancers

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Intelligent routing without more infrastructure

Centralized, location-dependent backends

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Data and context flow to wherever work happens

MEET NATS

Talk to anything, anywhere.

NATS lets any agent, device, or service talk to any other, without knowing where it lives, how many instances are running, or whether it's even online yet. NATS is one unified system, with every layer built on a shared protocol.

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Client libraries

5. Security - Built-in authn/z and multi-tenancy

4. Clustering - Leaf node or supercluster, same 20 MB binary

3. Data Stores - Key-value and object storage on JetStream

2. JetStream - Streaming with delivery guarantees

1. Core - Fire-and-forget messaging

Core

Fire-and-forget messaging

Route by subject, not by endpoint. No discovery, no DNS games.
Pub/sub and many-to-many by default. Add subscribers without touching producers.
Request/reply and queue group patterns built-in.

Go deeper on NATS Core

5. Security - Built-in authn/z and multi-tenancy

4. Clustering - Leaf node or supercluster, same 20 MB binary

3. Data Stores - Key-value and object storage on JetStream

2. JetStream - Streaming with delivery guarantees

1. Core - Fire-and-forget messaging

Core

Fire-and-forget messaging

Route by subject, not by endpoint. No discovery, no DNS games.
Pub/sub and many-to-many by default. Add subscribers without touching producers.
Request/reply and queue group patterns built-in.

Go deeper on NATS Core

NATS AT SCALE

Cutting-edge AI systems run on NATS

Real-time AI needs real-time infrastructure. NATS provides the messaging and data layer that lets agents, models, and services communicate instantly across any environment.

NATS as the control plane for GPU inference at scale

NVIDIA Cloud Functions (NVCF) uses a Synadia-managed NATS supercluster to queue and route inference requests across multiple regions. JetStream provides the durable, low-latency work queue that decouples bursty HTTP/gRPC traffic from expensive GPU capacity — enabling scale-to-zero, multi-region failover, and clean per-function isolation.

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THE COMPANY BEHIND NATS

Connect everything with Synadia

We help teams build and run the event-driven systems that connect AI agents, data, and services across cloud, edge, and the physical world.

Synadia Platform

Partner with the NATS experts. Enterprises choose Synadia Platform to operate intelligent systems that sense, decide, and act in real time.

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Synadia Cloud

Start building on NATS in minutes. Synadia Cloud is the fast lane to production, with no NATS system to deploy, operate, or upgrade.

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What happens when distributed systems meet GPUs, LLMs, and AI agents?

Our thinking on the future of distributed systems

Scaling Global AI Inference with NATS JetStream

How NATS + JetStream provides the messaging and queuing layer that AI inference systems need to handle bursty traffic, scale globally, and keep GPUs busy without overloading them.

Andrew Connolly Jan 19, 2026

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