The first paragraph in the article explains it. It is similar to RabbitMQ. > NATS is an open-source messaging system. At its core, NATS provides publish-subscr

The first paragraph in the article explains it. It is similar to RabbitMQ. > NATS is an open-source messaging system. At its core, NATS provides publish-subscribe messaging, but has expanded to enable other features. It has a request/reply mechanism which you can use for service-to-service communication (in lieu of HTTP APIs). And it now includes a persistence layer which means it can on workloads you'd normally turn to Kafka for. The project is supported by the CNCF.