nats-io/nats-server
High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #3 among Cloud repositories tracked this week, and #3 over the last 30 days; #55 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 3%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 216 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +133 stars on Sep 17, coincided with release v2.15.0.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a high-performance messaging server for cloud-native, edge, and distributed systems using the NATS protocol.
- Delivers a lightweight, secure, and scalable message bus optimized for microservices and edge computing environments.
- Use for building real-time communication infrastructure in microservices architectures requiring low latency and high throughput.
- Use for enabling messaging and event streaming in connected vehicle systems and edge AI deployments.
- Use for deploying a reliable message queue on resource-constrained devices like Raspberry Pi in hybrid cloud-edge scenarios.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
NATS is a simple, secure and performant communications system for digital systems, services and devices. NATS is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). NATS has over 40 client language implementations, and its server can run on-premise, in the cloud, at the edge, and even on a Raspberry Pi. NATS can secure and simplify design and operation of modern distributed systems.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+596 stars over 82 days across 27 snapshot days; best day +133 on Sep 17.
Forks
2.0K+116
Open issues
478-53
Compared with peers in Cloud
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nats-io/nats-server | 20.8K | +0 | 75 | today |
| aws/aws-cdk | 12.9K | +0 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| infracost/infracost | 12.6K | +0 | 59 | 16 days ago |
| Netflix/metaflow | 10.3K | +0 | 75 | 40 days ago |
| awslabs/mcp | 9.8K | +0 | 75 | today |
| 2FastLabs/agent-squad | 7.8K | +0 | 75 | 18 days ago |
| Category median | 10.3K | +0 | 75 | — |
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