NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories. The agreement follows a dispute over Synadia's decision to move its NATS code from the Apache 2.0 to Business …

[Gene Cash]

"open source messaging system NATS"

This is the second article involving it. Anybody else ever heard of it, or even use it? Is it a foundation for anything out there I might know of?

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: "open source messaging system NATS"

Yeah, odd for the article not to at least give a one line description of what it is. My mind went directly to Network Address Translation (Service?)

A link in the article to the PR statement lead to link to the NATS home page which right at the very bottom of the page has a video which explains what it is. After about 40 seconds of fluff,f the video eventually answer the question, "What is NATS?". t seems to be the sort of thing where if you need to know what it is, you probably know what it is and if you don't know what is, you probably don't need to know anyway :-)

[kmorwath]

Re: "open source messaging system NATS"

Yes, if you're into distributed systems and message queues.

And most of there projects too are moving towards more and more restrictive lincesing. And now that RabbitMQ is also in Broadcom hands....

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "open source messaging system NATS"

We use NATS as a lightweight alternative to RabbitMQ for integrating our multitenant ecommerce service and orchestrating parts of our infrastructure.

At the time, we opted for it because of the license easy integration with our Golang backend without needing to deploy another application alongside it. I mean, we're not a Fortune 500 nor FAANG, but process around 6~10M messages per month, and it's working very well.

I believe NATS isn't as well-known because it's primarily used for internal, proprietary non-customer-facing systems.