nats-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill addresses the complexity of implementing scalable, robust message handling in NATS and JetStream, ensuring efficient messaging with exactly-once delivery, fault tolerance, and high throughput.

Core Features & Use Cases

• NATS vs JetStream Decision: Offers guidance on choosing between Core NATS and JetStream based on use case.
• Stream and Consumer Configuration: Best practices for setting up Streams and Consumers with focus on retention policies, storage, and message processing.
• Publisher Patterns: Demonstrates robust publishing patterns with idempotency and deduplication strategies.
• Worker Scalability: Best practices for scaling workers consuming from the same subject with JetStream Pull Consumers.
• Dead Letter Queue (DLQ): Implementations and considerations for DLQ setup.
• Graceful Shutdown: Best practices for handling graceful shutdown to avoid message loss.

Quick Start

Load this skill to get insights into best practices for designing NATS messaging architectures.