NATS

With the advent of the browser, cloud, embedded Linux systems, and networked microcontrollers, distributed systems are everywhere. There are many models for communication in distributed systems — we will look at the tradeoffs between three of them. There are many perspectives to consider — initial implementation, client libraries, maintenance, adding features now and in the future, client compute and storage requirements, network bandwidth, data structure, etc. This article will discuss a number of these concerns and present several options.