Friday, June 13, 2025

Open Source?: NATS vs. CNCF "Hotel California"

problems with "Cloud Native" Open Source ownership

 NATS and the CNCF kerfuffle with Derek Collison, CEO of Synadia (Changelog Interviews #641)

Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks the recent tensions between Synadia and the CNCF over the future of the project.


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