NATS Monthly - June 2024

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

• Interested in a hands-on NATS workshop and you are in the Asia Pacific region? On June 12th, 2024, Jeremy Saenz from Synadia will host a workshop focusing on building microservice architectures better with NATS. View the event and register here!

• ICYMI Synadia Cloud now offers an HTTP Gateway! Read the blog post to learn more, see examples, and get started!

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• The Simple IoT project is investing in making the dependency surface area smaller. Guess what they want to replace some dependencies with? NATS JetStream! Visualize what they intend to remove here!

• Nice shout out from Volkan Alkılıç from Proxus on how NATS was a core technology choice for building their newly launched IIoT Platform!

📖 Articles

Blog posts, tutorials, or any other text-based content about NATS.

• Introduction to OtterJet - Sebastian Rabiej, SoftwareMill
• Delegate with trust - Vincent Vermersch, SAAAS Architect
• DotSentry: Ecosystem-wide Monitoring Solution - Karim Jedda, Parity Technologies

⚙️ Projects

Community created projects, integrations, or discussions in the NATS ecosystem.

• softwaremill/OtterJet - A project designed to provide a visualization of messages from a NATS JetStream server.

🧑‍🎓 Resources

Official learning resources, such as docs, screencasts, podcasts, and examples.

Live Streams

• Building real-time apps with NATS and SolidJS - Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
• Cloud Native Live: Advanced NATS - Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic and Jeremy Saenz, Synadia

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.10.16
• nats.go - v1.35.0
• nats.deno - v1.26.0
• nats.js - v2.26.0
• nats.ws - v1.27.0
• nats.rs/async - v0.35.1
• nats.net - v1.1.5
• nats.net.v2 - v2.2.2
• nats.java - v2.18.1
• k8s/nats - v1.1.12
• nats-spark-connector - v1.2.4
• jwt - v2.5.7
• nex - v0.2.3

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats.go

• Jetstream Consumers - Creation of Consumers on Stream with replication takes more time
• Lack of separation of Core NATS/JetStream API is confusing
• How to get notifications for expiry of keys in Jetstream KV store

nats.py

• Connecting with TLS when NATS is insecure
• Nak with delay only working once and not on redelivery.
• Duplicate messages regardless of msg.Ack()?
• NATS Python example equivalent to nats reply and nats request

nats.net

• Consume speed with MaxAckPending == 1

nats.net.v2

• SubscribeAsync Process Pending message

nats.java

• Are there available metrics regarding the redelivered and deleted messages?
• Collect Received Timestamp in Library

k8s

• TCP protocol for 4222