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Agree. I would really like to hear what is the upside / sales pitch of NATS compared to an Erlang server (that, BTW, supports SCTP out of the box).

• gigatexal 9y ago
  Developer creates alpha /pet project for fun and learning and HN commenters complain it doesn’t do enough... sheesh.
  • weberc2 9y ago
    I don't see any trace of complaint; did he edit his post?
    • gigatexal 9y ago
      No actually I think I was quick to judge. My critique is wrong.
      • weberc2 9y ago
        Eh, easy mistake. Text lacks a lot of nonverbal context.
• ihsw2 9y ago
  NATS can saturate a network port with hundreds of thousands of messages/second with minimal impact on CPU, it scales linearly with cores, and it has minimal/zero effort fail-over. Whether across large geographic boundaries (ie: AWS cross-region) or in the same rack, NATS clustering is reliable and definitely speedy.
  • crocal 9y ago
    Thanks!
  • bjflanne 9y ago
    Well said; the other project involving NATS from the Rapidloop team (gRPC over NATS essentially) mentions some benefits as they see it which are what you've pointed out: https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc