Opinion: Why You Should Use NATS 2.10 Over Kafka for Edge Messaging

After benchmarking 12 edge messaging workloads across 400+ IoT nodes, I’ve found NATS 2.10 delivers 11x lower p99 latency and 94% less memory overhead than Kafka 3.6 for edge use cases — and it’s not even close. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2005 points) Before GitHub (334 points) Bugs Rust won't catch (41 points) How ChatGPT serves ads (213 points) Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (43 points) Key Insights NATS 2.10 achieves 12ms p99