Presentation from a talk given by Diogo Monteiro (@diogogmt) at a recent NATS Meetup in Toronto. The talk covered why NATS is a simple, fast method for microservices communication, and provides some latency benchmarks from Diogo's design of a solution using NATS. You can learn more about NATS at http://www.nats.io

1. NATS vs HTTP
Inter service communication

2. Agenda
● Traditional HTTP Architecture
● NATS Microservice Architecture
● Benchmark setup
● Benchmark results
● Migration Considerations

3. Traditional HTTP Architecture
● Drawbacks:
○ Load Balancing
○ Service Discovery
○ Each service must have a
dedicated WebServer
● Doesn't fit the
microservice model

4. NATS Microservice Architecture
● Fits the new
Microservice
patterns
● NATS is
○ Lightweight
○ Flexible
○ Highly Performant
● It becomes easier to
create microservices
○ Load Balancing
○ Service Discovery

5. Benchmark setup
● Running with Docker
● One Client
● One Proxy
● One Service
● Source code
○ https://github.com/diogogmt/nats-rest-benchmark

6. Benchmark Results
● Each request is
executed serially
● Client times how long
it takes to execute
all requests

7. Benchmark Results
● Client executes
requests concurrently
with a factor of 20%

8. Considerations
● Different NATS strategies
○ Pub/Sub
○ Request/Reply
○ Queuing
● Keep in mind
○ Concurrency
○ Session Management
○ Metadata
○ Message status
○ NATS-Proxy framework
■ Author: Radomír Sohlich
■ https://github.com/sohlich/nats-proxy

9. Questions?
diogogmt.com
@diogogmt