Synadia

Your DR standby has never been tested under real load. And regulators are asking harder questions about cloud concentration risk. Active/active removes the question — both clouds live, both serving, nothing to fail over to. This workshop walks through how to architect it with NATS JetStream: supercluster topology, replica and mirror placement, and the quorum tradeoffs that determine your design. Then we kill an entire cloud and watch the system keep serving. Some NATS experience assumed.

MQTT gets data off devices. The layer above it is where things break. Network drops, you lose readings and history. Network holds, you're shipping every raw reading to the cloud. This hands-on workshop shows the edge-to-cloud pattern that fixes both — a NATS leaf node at every site with local JetStream. We'll cut a live uplink and watch it buffer and backfill. Your devices keep speaking MQTT. No NATS experience needed.

"Move off Solace" is a decision. The plan is where it gets hard. Where do your queues go? What replaces guaranteed messaging? How do you cut over without taking anything down? This live workshop walks through the concept mapping, the migration paths, and the gotchas that only show up after you've started. You'll leave with a cheat sheet and a migration checklist to run against your own estate. No NATS experience required.

New to NATS? Start here. The Fundamentals workshop is the fastest way in — core concepts, the mental model, and the "oh, that's it?" moment where NATS clicks. Recorded live with the maintainers, free to watch on demand. No signup, no sales pitch. Just the on-ramp.

Kafka wants 8 cores and 64–128 GB of RAM per broker — plus a ZooKeeper quorum to babysit. NATS is a single 15 MB binary that idles at 48 MB and runs on a Raspberry Pi. Same messaging and streaming job, a fraction of the footprint.

When a Kafka broker goes down, the blast radius is rarely just one thing — rebalancing, lost consumers, ZooKeeper quorum. NATS clusters are self-healing with no external coordinator, so a lost node isn't a fire drill.