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by clumsysmurf 4620 days ago
At first glance, NATS looks similar in goal to MQTT. Can anyone describe the differences?
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jvoorhis 4620 days ago
NATS is the pub-sub messaging protocol and implementation created by Derek Collision, who architected the first iteration of Cloud Foundry. It is a simple pub-sub service at its core, but the Ruby and NodeJS clients implement various messaging patterns similar to what is supported by ZeroMQ. It is used extensively within Cloud Foundry.
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stock_toaster 4620 days ago
After some googling, I found this description here[1]. It sounds like a straightforward pub-sub server (similar to redis pub/sub?).

  [1]: http://www.activestate.com/blog/2013/01/building-paas-ruby
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