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• ies7 6y ago
  I heard a lot of praise about Nats, but isn't it more like a kafka alternative? Someone new need to spend sometime grasping the stream concept.
  • jonathanoliver 6y ago
    NATS by itself is designed to be more of an always-on style queuing system (the term they use is "dial tone") but doesn't handle node failures by itself. If you're looking for a Kafka-flavored NATS, there's a new release I saw recently called LiftBridge that adds some durability to the NATS protocol.
    • shaklee3 6y ago
      Someone mentioned this already below, but nats streaming also adds durability.
  • mcsoft 6y ago
    One practical reason we chose Nats over Kafka was that Nats doesn't need zookeeper for HA. Nats doesn't provide message durability too, luckily it's not required for 95% of our use cases. Also, having NATS already implemented it's a natural move to use NATS Streaming for durability rather than introducing a completely new technology to your stack. Less pieces - fewer chances something breaks.