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Assess
NATS is a cloud native messaging and stream-data system for modern distributed software systems. Two design-goals were simplicity and performance. These are adopted by selecting golang for the server implementation and reducing the memory footprint for both: server- and client-side. The server-side provides simple and efficient horizontal scaling (e.g. deploying it inside Kubernetes) and the small client-footprint allows us to use it in embedded-systems, edge-computing and IoT devices e.g. for command and controll use-cases. Also, the long list of existing integrations and the plugin-systems bring a great flexibility.