[jnmatsynadia]

And I would add, as soon as you are using more than one stream (e.g. do sharding using Core NATS subject transformation) because JetStream throughput scales horizontally, just like Kafka throughput scale horizontally as you add more partitions and more servers in the cluster I feel reasonably confident to say that _in most cases_ it doesn't really matter what the target number of messages per second is, as you can create a cluster large enough to provide that aggregated throughput. In properly distributed systems, the answer to the benchmark number question truly is 'how long is a piece of string'.