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NATS AltitudeBeyond Digital Towers: Airport Digitisation and the Great Data ConvergenceAviation is at a crossroads. On one side is the familiarity of legacy systems, including decades-old air traffic control infrastructure and manual ground operations. On the other is the promise of digital transformation: smarter flight management, real-time operational insights, and seamless passenger experiences driven by advanced technologies. With many organisations currently caught in the middle, the challenge is to know where to start. In this month’s Altitude, we’re joined by three people who know. Marco Rueckert is Searidge Technologies’ Chief Technology Officer. He shares insights into the pioneering work Searidge is doing arou...2025-05-0654 min
NATS.fmEP03S3: NATS 2.11 Release1. Distributed Message TracingGain full visibility into message paths across complex NATS topologies — including clusters, gateways, leaf nodes, account boundaries, and subject mappings.- Activated via a NATS-Trace header and supported directly in the CLI (nats trace [subject]).- Supports dry runs: trace a message’s route without delivering it, ideal for debugging or verification.- Useful for both operators and developers to understand and verify message flow behavior.2. Per-Message TTL (Time-To-Live)Set expiration per message with the NATS-TTL header — allowing messages to age out individually, regardless of stream-level retention settings.- TTLs are optional and per-message: not all messages need o...2025-04-0847 minNATS.fmEP02S3 - Orbit: The NATS Client ExtensionsTomasz Pietrek and David Gee are back to discuss Orbit: the NATS client extensions!You can find the Orbit libraries below:https://github.com/synadia-io/orbit.gohttps://github.com/synadia-io/orbit.jshttps://github.com/synadia-io/orbit.javahttps://github.com/synadia-io/orbit.rsEnjoy.2025-02-1749 minNATS AltitudeInside Heathrow's Airport Operations CentreBeyond the tower and the terminals lies the APOC – Heathrow’s Airport Operations Centre.From here, up to 50 people from across the airport community are looking after just about every aspect of the Heathrow operation. From responding to suspect packages and monitoring traffic to planning presidential visits, it is all done by the team here. Alongside them is the NATS HOEC team – the Heathrow Operations Efficiency Cell – a vital link between the wider airport operation and the control tower, working together to make sure every day runs as smoothly as possible. In this episode of...2025-01-1543 minNATS.fmEP01S3 - Back to basics with core NATSTomasz Pietrek, Maurice van Veen and David Gee kick off season 3 and we're off the blocks with a back to basics episode! We chat core NATS, the basics of a connection and the pub-sub turtles (all the way down)!
Season 2 was spectacularly short (one episode) and so let's kick off S3 for 2025 with this early December special!
Enjoy.2024-12-0552 minNATS AltitudeDrones: Redefining Industries, Revolutionising LivesFrom keeping us safe and reducing our climate impact to delivering hot meals in just three minutes – just some of the incredible drone use cases we heard about in a special episode of Altitude recorded at the DroneX Tradeshow & Conference. ✈ Taryn Evans tells us about the National Police Chiefs' Council ambitious drone programme.✈ Alan Hicks explains how Manna Drone Delivery have made over 200,000 deliveries in Dublin.✈ Andrew Sage updates us on NATS’ foundational OpenAir concept.✈ Charles Tavner flies through Flylogix operations in the North Sea and Richard Ellis explains how NATS Services help m...2024-10-081h 01NATS AltitudeTips and Advice for Future Trainee Air Traffic ControllersNATS has just reopened recruitment for trainee air traffic controllers, but what does that process look like and what kind of career can successful candidates look forward to?In this special episode of Altitude we’re exploring the whole recruitment process, from understanding the requirements and the application process through to assessment and beyond. We’ll also be looking at the training, what’s involved and how candidates can best prepare for success. Apply now at nats.aero/careersYou can also watch an on demand version of the livestream on our YouTube channel...2024-07-0434 minNATS.fmNATS.fm S2EP1: Welcoming in 2024 with a bangWelcome to season two of NATS.fm!
We start off this season by talking about Synadia's RethinkConn 2024 and the excitement around some of the new up and coming NATS Execution Engine, Synadia Cloud, the NATS ambassador programme and more!
If you're interested in NEX, you can find more here: https://nats.io/blog/introducing_nex/For the RethinkConn 2024
videos: https://www.synadia.com/blog/rethinkconn-2024
Want to try out NATS in the cloud for free?Head over to https://cloud.synadia.com 2024-01-2953 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with the Nats Report (Gallo and top 30 discussion)Haden and Jeremy discuss the Joey Gallo addition and the Nats Report preseason top 30 prospect list. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2024-01-2641 min
NATS.fmEP09: Grokking Streams and ConsumersNATS provides incredibly powerful usage patterns and one of the most fundamental is streams and consumers. This pairing is a super power and can solve many challenges in the most simplest way. We cover the bare fundamentals of NATS streams and how to consume data from them with some model use cases to help the exploration. Want to feel more confident about how to embrace data streams? Take a listen as we go back to basics.
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NATS.fmEP08: AI at the Edge(s) with NATS.ioFrom self-driving cars, to intelligent toasters, this resurgence of artificial intelligence is here to stay. In this episode, we talk about how NATS.io could be the perfect system to connect your AI, ML and DL systems to your business software from the tiniest of systems and machines, across the edge(s) and back to the data center.
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In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with the Nats Report (End of Season Review)Haden and Jeremy discuss the end of the Nationals season, including the series against the Braves. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-10-0322 min
NATS.fmEP07: Going off piste; KV patterns with NATS.io (pt1)Now that we have v2.10 of the nats-server released, it's time to discuss what we can do with NATS. We start by discussing patterns that we can easily achieve with the KV store. Enjoy!
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- Website - https://nats.io
- Examples - https://natsbyexample.com
- Docs - https://docs.nats...2023-10-0348 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with the Nats Report (Vargas, catchers, Braves)Haden and Jeremy discuss Ildemaro Vargas's extension, catchers, the upcoming Braves series, and more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-09-2937 min
NATS.fmEP06: The journey and features of the NATS.io 2.10 releaseIt's here!!! Server 2.10 of the nats-server has been released, and with it, a whole swathe of new features and capabilities. Byron sits down with Neil Twigg and Tomasz Pietrek to talk about what's new and their journey with the nats-server and clients from 2.9 to 2.10.
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Useful Linkshttps://examples.nats.iohttps://docs.nats.io
The home of the NATS team: https://synadia.com2023-09-251h 10
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with The Nats Report (White Sox; Minor League Awards)Haden and Jeremy discuss the Nationals series against the White Sox, minor league awards, and the upcoming Braves series. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-09-2240 min
NATS.fmEP05: Exploring Powerful Client-side Features and Abstractions in NATS.ioWelcome to episode 5 and our first episode with a special guest!
Byron & Dave chat with Tomasz Pietrek, the NATS client team lead engineer on the powerful client libraries. We dig in to JetStream simplification, the KV & Object Store and the Micro Services API. Buckle in for our longest episode yet!
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The home of the NATS team: h...2023-09-201h 12
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with The Nats Report (Brewers; Lane Thomas; White Sox)Haden and Jeremy discuss their takeaways from the Brewers series, Lane Thomas's future with the team, and the upcoming White Sox series. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-09-1829 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with The Nats Report (Rutledge, Pirates, MacKenzie Gore)Haden and Jeremy talk about Jackson Rutledge's MLB debut, the Pirates series as a whole, MacKenzie Gore going on the IL, and the future of the team. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/thenatsreportofficial This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-09-1539 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with The Nats Report (Strasburg, Jacob Young, Dodgers)Haden and Jeremy discussed the front office changes, Strasburg's delayed retirement, Jacob Young, and Luis García. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-09-0859 min
NATS.fmEP04: A service mesh pattern for NATS.ioWelcome to episode 4, the last chat about service meshes (for now)!
In EP03, David got stuck, rambling about service and function chaining and Byron gives him a chance to redeem himself and explain properly. The outcome is a hugely simplified approach to service mesh deployment and the narrowing of technical complexity and an increase in capabilities. We go through the most popular features that you're likely to deploy and how using NATS.io, Byron would approach the requirements.
Want to suggest a topic? Find us on Twitter (@nats_io) or our community Slac...2023-09-0551 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with The Nats Report (Strasburg; Stone Garrett InjuryOn this episode of In the Clubhouse Haden and Jeremy discuss Stone Garrett's injury, Stephen Strasburg's retirement, Alex Call, and the Toronto Blue Jays series. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-08-2838 min
NATS.fmEP03: Escaping the HTTP Mindset with NATS.ioWelcome to episode 3! Byron & David talk HTTP, the developer power hammer. They hint at breaking apart the synchronous nature of the web and discuss how with NATS, you can extend communication capabilities north to south, east to west and also provide a foundation for function-chaining. Dream of a world without HTTP? This might be of interest.
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Here are some useful links for NATS!
https://examples.nats.io
https://docs.n...2023-08-2337 minNATS.fmEP02: Monolith to Modular Monolith with NATS.ioJoin Byron Ruth and David Gee as they discuss moving from monoliths to modular monoliths with NATS.io. This sideways move also paves the way for microservices and service meshes (look out for EP03 and EP04!). NATS has many capabilities to help you move from rigid architectures, to polyglot friendly and horizontally distributable super powers and we touch the basics in EP02.
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h...2023-08-0831 minNATS.fmEP01: Protecting data with NATS for ML, AI and LLMsJoin Byron Ruth and David Gee as they discuss data safety, data sovereignty and data accountability all through the lens of NATS.io. With LLMs especially, off-the-shelf use is all too easy and protecting the huge volumes of data is more important than ever.
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Here are some useful links for NATS!
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The home of the NATS team...2023-08-0117 minNATS Altitude25 - Airspace Modernisation: Transforming the SkiesAirspace – our invisible motorways in the sky – is the underpinning of the entire aviation industry. Vital to the safe operation of tens of thousands of flights every single day, it is an infrastructure relied on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to enhance the UK’s global connections. But it is also in need of a radical transformation.In this episode of Altitude, we examine why airspace modernisation is such an important part of the industry’s response to the climate crisis and vital to the decarbonisation of the aviation sector. We look at NATS’ experience in delivering...2023-07-2748 minNATS Altitude24 - Marking the 75th anniversary of the Berlin AirliftThe Berlin Airlift was a significant episode in the beginnings of the Cold War, with American, British, and French aircrews flying hundreds of daily cargo flights to deliver essential supplies into a West Berlin blockaded by the Soviet Union.Despite impossible odds, Berlin was sustained by air for 15 months from June 1948, with more than one third of flights being handled from Gatow Airport in the British sector of the beleaguered city. But what made the operation a success? What was the importance of ATC, and how did technical advances help lay the foundations for modern high intensity...2023-06-2631 min
In the Clubhouse with the Nats ReportIn the Clubhouse with the Nats Report (St. Louis Cardinals Series Preview)Haden and Jeremy discuss the Nats' shortcomings in the Marlins series and then the upcoming series against the St. Louis Cardinals. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thenatsreport.com/subscribe2023-06-2023 minNATS Altitude23 - Operation Golden Orb: Planning the King's Coronation FlypastWhile the weather may have played its part, Saturday 6 May saw a wonderful flypast over central London to mark the coronation of King Charles III. But what does it really take to organise such a spectacle in what is some of the world’s busiest airspace and why does the weather have such an impact? Did the King get to choose the types of aircraft?!In this episode of Altitude we’re joined by special guests from the Royal Air Force, Wing Commander Noel Rees - Mission Commander for the whole flypast - and 78 Squadron air traffic cont...2023-05-1147 min
Next Gen NatsEpisode 19 | The Glass Case of Emotion-The Nats can't help themself
-Poor bullpen management
-Poor lineup management
-Poor just about everything
-An airing of grievances for this team2023-04-3054 minNATS Altitude22 - How to become an Air Traffic ControllerNATS has just reopened recruitment for trainee air traffic controllers, but what does that process look like and what kind of career can successful candidates look forward to?In this episode of Altitude we’re exploring the whole recruitment process, from understanding the requirements and the application process through to assessment and beyond. We’ll also be looking at the training, what’s involved and how candidates can best prepare for success. Two air traffic controllers will share their experiences of recruitment, training and validation and what it’s like to then put that learning into pra...2023-04-2142 minNATS Altitude21 - Mourning a Monarch: Silencing the skies for the State Funeral of The QueenAs the world mourned the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, plans for the first state funeral of a British monarch in more than 70 years were being put into action. As a mark of respect, it was agreed that aircraft would not overfly the funeral or procession from Central London to Windsor Castle - a period of over nine hours via a route just a few metres from Britain’s busiest airport, Heathrow. What followed were 10 days of incredibly intense preparation, as teams from across NATS, Heathrow Airport and the airlines worked to create a mi...2023-02-1344 minNATS Altitude20 - Drones: Realising the Uncrewed Aviation RevolutionFrom transforming how urgent goods are moved around the world to surveying infrastructure in remote, dangerous environments and aiding accurate, rapid emergency response, uncrewed aviation has long promised to revolutionise our lives and the aviation industry.But unleashing that potential means delivering safe and scalable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, something that remains the biggest hurdle for the burgeoning uncrewed aviation sector to overcome. What are the technological, regulatory and operational boundaries that still exist? How can air traffic service providers work with the industry to integrate new airspace users and where are t...2022-11-2547 min