We don’t. Not all empires fall… some just fade into irrelevance

I’d take that bet

6 year old project? Does it even still work?

I’ve been meaning to check out NATS - I’ve tended to default to Redis for pubsub. What are the main advantages? I use clickhouse and Postgres extensively

I've been disappointed by Nats. Core Nats is good and works well, but if you need stronger delivery guarantees you need to use Jetstream which has a lot of quirks, for instance it does not integrate well with the permission system in Core Nats. Their client SDKs are very buggy and unreliable. I've used the Python, Rust and Go ones, only the Go one worked as expected. I would recommend using rabbitmq, Kafka or redpanda instead of Nats.

I've had the same experience and I fixed part of the problem by writing my own Rust client, Watermelon. It's still missing a lot of features but at least I'm not blocked by weird decisions taken by upstream.

Client SDKs are often a major challenge in systems like these. In my experience, building SDKs on top of asynchronous protocols is particularly tricky. It's generally much easier to make the server-side part reliable. The complexity arises because SDKs must account for a wide range of usage patterns - and you are not controlling the usage.

Asynchronous protocols frequently result in callback-based or generator-style APIs on the client side, which are hard to implement safely and intuitively. For example, consider building a real-time SDK for something like NATS. Once a message arrives, you need to invoke a user-defined callback to handle it. At that point, you're faced with a design decision: either call the callback synchronously (which risks blocking the socket reading loop), or do it asynchronously (which raises issues like backpressure handling).

Also, SDKs are often developed by different people, each with their own design philosophy and coding style, leading to inconsistency and subtle bugs.

So this isn't only about NATS. Just last week, we ran into two critical bugs in two separate Kafka SDKs at work.

Are those recommendations based on using them all in the same context? Curious why you chose Kafka (or Redpanda which is effectively the same) over NATS.

NATS gives you regular pub/sub but also streams as well (similar to Kafka along with strong durability guarantees, etc).

Can confirm the frontend piece - there is previously available functionality that was removed from the ui that you can still access via the web api

Because people here are dumb enough to have voted these guys in in the first place

Signed up - added some credits and tried some requests - only seeing errors right now on the search method and no results on bulk. I can’t find a support email to reach out. Understand it’s new so probably working out bugs but would like to get it working to test it out fully