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Byron Ruth

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Dada. Husband. Runner. Cook. Technologist. VP of Product/Eng @synadia, the stewards of @nats_io. Previously Director of Eng @chopdbhi
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Byron Ruth @thedevel
@nats_io of course! It does way more than pub/sub and you can greatly simplify your stack. And generally this is asking the wrong question. It should be what tech is best to reduce the latency for accessing data and services.
Stanislav Kozlovski Verified account @kozlovski Jun 1, 2025
You have a 1 MB/s pub/sub data stream.

What do you choose to power it?

• postgres
• redis
• kafka
• rabbitmq
• SQS
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Byron Ruth @thedevel
It is a good constraint in general. Especially with the increased concern and reality of software supply chain challenges. @nats_io is a great example of this. For all that it does, it has a very conservative list of dependencies. github.com/nats-io/nats-s…
github.com nats-server/go.mod at main · nats-io/nats-server High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. - nats-io/nats-server
Gunnar Morling 🌍 Verified account @gunnarmorling Dec 23, 2021
I wish more library maintainers would follow a (close to) zero dependencies policy. Libs should never depend on stuff like Guava, kotlin-stdlib, or logger implementations. Yes, it means less comfort for yourself, but your users will be grateful.
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