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Dev tools · January 21, 2017

NATS

Cloud Native, Open Source High Performance Messaging

NATS launched on January 21, 2017 with 8 votes, #1,737 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

NATS is a connective technology powering modern distributed systems, unifying Cloud, On-Premise, Edge, and IoT.

Free hands-on NATS workshops from RethinkConn 2026. Register now → NATS unifies messaging, streaming, and state into one real-time system — connecting services, devices, and AI agents from cloud to edge. NATS is a high-performance, lightweight, open-source messaging system designed for building modern distributed systems, across any cloud or any arbitrary, user-defined edge. It supports pub/sub, request/reply, and streaming with persistence (via JetStream), all through a single binary with minimal resource usage and sub-millisecond latency. Official clients are available in Go, Rust, JavaScript (Node and Web), TypeScript (Deno), Python, Java, C#, C, Ruby, Elixir, and a CLI—plus 30+…from nats.io

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