Organizations are moving from message delivery to data streaming, unlocking new capabilities, insights, and improved business value. Here’s how to do the same.

Redpanda

NATS works well for lightweight messaging, but as organizations scale, they need more durable, replayable event streams. Redpanda offers Kafka-compatible streaming with exactly-once semantics, infinite retention via tiered storage, guaranteed ordering, and 300+ connectors. The migration involves auditing workloads, mapping NATS subjects to Redpanda topics with partitioning strategies, using Redpanda Connect for data transfer with simple YAML pipelines, validating message parity, updating consumers to Kafka APIs, and finally cutting over producers while decommissioning NATS.

Migrating from NATS to Redpanda: Evolve from messaging to streaming