5 engineers on Hacker News describe using NATS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I got very deep into using NATS last year, and then realized the choices it makes for persistence are really surprising.”
regret · production · 1 yr · williamstein · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run superclusters with a bunch of nodes, and the Raft-based leader election system has worked flawlessly so far. NATS does not yet support value operations other than setting the whole value.”
mixed · production · atombender · 2024-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With NATS you can ask for more than one response, which might also be useful.”
endorse · production · KaiserPro · 2019-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using NATS in prod for a very specific usecase: request reply.”
endorse · production · KaiserPro · 2019-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use NATS in production. Kafka and NATS are almost complete opposites.”
neutral · production · pritambaral · 2017-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?