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Published inNov 2021
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ISBN-139781801072212
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Chanaka Fernando
Chanaka Fernando
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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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Introduction to NATS

NATS is a messaging platform built to meet the distributed computing needs of modern applications. It addresses distributed computing needs such as the following:

  • Secure communications between services
  • Service discovery
  • Resiliency
  • Agile development
  • Scalability
  • Performance

These requirements are fulfilled by the unique design of the NATS messaging framework, which comes with features such as the following:

  • High performance: NATS performs better than most of the existing message broker products, including Kafka and RabbitMQ.
  • Lightweight: It does not need sophisticated hardware and complex deployment models to support large message volumes.
  • Simple to use: It supplies a simple API to use the system.
  • At most once and at least once delivery: Supports message guarantees required by applications.
  • Support for event handling: It can handle event streams with better performance.
  • Support for different languages...
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Chanaka Fernando

Chanaka Fernando is a solution architect with 12+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale software solutions for customers across various industries including finance, education, healthcare, and telecommunications. He has contributed to the open source community with his work (design, implementation, and support) as the product lead of the WSO2 ESB, one of the founding members of the "Ballerina: cloud-native programming language" project, and his own work on GitHub. He has spoken at several WSO2 conferences and his articles are published on Medium, DZone, and InfoQ. Chanaka has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Moratuwa.
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