Nats on Rafiul Alam

Messaging Systems: A Visual Reference

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

15 messaging scenarios with increasing complexity — Kafka, RabbitMQ, and JetStream NATS compared through diagrams. Less words, more architecture.

Building Scalable Event-Driven Microservices in Go: A User and Notes Service Example

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to build scalable, resilient event-driven microservices in Go using NATS JetStream, Watermill, Bun ORM, and PostgreSQL with practical User and Notes service examples.

NATS & JetStream in Go: Cloud-Native Messaging at Scale

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Master NATS and JetStream in Go: subject-based messaging, pub/sub patterns, at-most-once vs at-least-once delivery, stream processing, and high-throughput microservices orchestration.

Event-Driven Note Sharing: Building Real-Time Microservices with NATS, Go, and Vue.js

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Building a real-time note-sharing application is a perfect use case for exploring event-driven architecture. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll build a production-ready system with two microservices (User and Note services) that communicate through NATS, delivering instant updates to a Vue.js frontend.

Why Event-Driven Architecture?

Traditional request-response patterns create tight coupling between services. When your Note service needs to notify users about changes, you don’t want to make synchronous HTTP calls to every service that cares about notes. Event-driven architecture solves this with loose coupling: