NATS is a connective technology that is built for the ever-increasingly hyper-connected world. It is the one and only technology that allows applications to securely interact across any combination of cloud vendors, on-premise, edge, web, mobile, and other devices. It is being used globally by various companies and can be used to accelerate or replace the traditional messaging system.

Messaging Patterns of NATS:

NATS basically supports 4 major patterns for communicating messages across entities and they include:

• Publish-Subscribe
• Subject-based Messaging
• Request-Reply
• Queue Groups

Features:

• High Performance
• Ease of use for developers and operators
• Very Lightweight
• Provides client support for over 30 different programming languages