**Atomic Batch Publishing in NATS 2.12 — All-or-Nothing Message Delivery** NATS 2.12 introduces atomic batch publishing, a game-changer for event sourcing and distributed systems. No more partial writes leaving your system in an inconsistent state — either every message commits together, or none of

**Consumer Pausing in NATS 2.11 — Hit Pause Without Losing Messages** Need to temporarily stop processing messages without losing data? NATS 2.11 introduces consumer pausing — a simple way to halt message delivery until a deadline you specify. Messages keep flowing to your stream, nothing gets lost

NATS JetStream's expected sequence headers let multiple processes work in parallel without locks. Instead of preventing conflicting writes, the server detects and rejects them — keeping your data consistent without blocking. In this video, we break down how expected sequence headers work, the three

NATS KubeCon NA 2025 videos, how to deploy a scalable NATS cluster, and the NATS 2.12.1 Jepsen report.