An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
As the original architect and designer of TIBCO Rendezvous and VMware’s Cloud Foundry, Synadia Founder and CEO Derek Collison knows a thing or two about building messaging systems with massive scale.
While at Cloud Foundry, he struggled with the scalability limitations of the open source RabbitMQ. It was time to build a better, cloud-native messaging technology from the ground up – and NATS.io was born.
At its core, NATS.io is a publish/subscribe technology much as Rendezvous was – but that’s where the similarity ends. It offers the scalability, speed, and observability that cloud-native technologies require, and also handles security in a fully multi-tenant, trustless manner – not only aligning with cloud-native principles, but moving them forward.
Leveraging the open source NATS.io and other open source technologies, Synadia built NGS, a cloud-native global communications system that Collison describes as a “secure global dial tone.”
Describing NGS is challenging. My best shot: it’s a self-organizing, cloud-native network abstraction that provides optimized and secure message interactions among any endpoints on the Internet, in any cloud, at the edge, or anywhere else.
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