NATS vs RabbitMQ vs Kafka: Choosing the Right Message Broker for Go
Building event-driven systems in Go? Choosing the right message broker can make or break your architecture. While Go gives you powerful concurrency tools like goroutines and channels, scaling beyond a single application requires a robust messaging system. Let’s dive into three popular choices—NATS, RabbitMQ, and Apache Kafka—and help you pick the right one for your project. Why Event-Driven Architecture Matters Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) allows services to communicate asynchronously through events rather than direct API calls. This approach brings serious benefits: ...