NATS Monthly - January 2025

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

Happy Holidays and New Year! Thanks to our vibrant community for another awesome year! The NATS Slack group has grown 28% over the past year in terms of net new members 18% in terms of weekly active members! Be sure to check out last year’s year-in-review newsletter for a plethora of information!

Who doesn’t like more for free? Connection and subscription limits on Synadia Cloud have been increased up to 10x at no additional cost! Check out the blog post for the motivation and plan details.

NATS extensions and the future of clients! The NATS maintainers at Synadia have been building a new suite of Open Source libraries called Orbit that augment the core NATS clients with additional features. Check out the blog post for details and links to the Orbit repositories. Join the #orbit NATS Slack channel to get involved!

RethinkConn 2025 is happening on March 20th! Join us for the largest NATS community event of the year! Sign up here and stayed tuned for more announcements on the agenda and speakers!

✨ Highlights

Year-in-review highlights of the most notable content, projects, and talks.

synadia-io/awesome-nats - the official Awesome NATS repo curated by Synadia
Revolutionizing Real-Time Alerts with AI, NATs and Streamlit - an article by Bobur Umurzokov, GlassFlow
Distributed AI: Using NATS.io to Seamlessly Connect AI applications from Cloud to Edge - a talk by Tomasz Pietrek and Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
High Performance Multi Regions Messaging with NATS - a talk by Cyril Becker & Vincent Bernaud, XBTO
Multi-Region Consistency: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too! - a blog post by Jean-Noël Moyne, Synadia
nats-nui/nui - a free and Open Source NATS management GUI
Cloud Native Live: Advanced NATS - a webinar by Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic and Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
Developer Voices: Inter-System Messaging with NATS & Jetstream - a video podcast hosted by Kris Jenkins with guest Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
Connect Your Self-Hosted NATS.io Cluster to Synadia Cloud - a blog post by Synadia
Real-time analytics from Edge to multiple factories with NATS and i-flow - a blog post by Jan Strehl, i-flow
Derek Collison, Founder & CEO of Synadia - Interview Series - an interview by Antoine Tardif, Unite.AI
Rethinking Connectivity at the Edge: Scaling Fleets of Low-Powered Devices Using NATS.io - a talk by Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
Maximizing Financial Performance: How Financial Institutions Can Achieve Low Latency and High Throughput with NATS.io and Akamai - a blog post by Talia Nassi, Akamai
From NATS Ambassador to Core Contributor with Maurice - NATS community hours with Nate Emerson and Maurice van Veen, Synadia
How a Popular Gaming Site Used Sveltos to Deploy a Flexible NATS Super-cluster on Kubernetes - a LinkedIn post by Project Sveltos
Edge AI with Derek Collison & Justyna Bak, CEO & VP of Marketing at Synadia - a podcast by DataCamp
Sam Attwood shares about his Homelab experience with NATS! - NATS community hours with Nate Emerson and Sam Attwood, Synadia

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

Fielding Johnston from Nesa.ai considers NATS their secret weapon, indicates the flexibility and cost comparison with alernatives, and shares some kind words!