NATS is an open source, high performance messaging system and connective fabric. It aims to simultaneously simplify the number of technologies you use for your services to communicate, while also empowering you to build systems that are globally available, multi-cloud, multi-geo, and highly adaptive to change and scale. In this session you'll receive a brief introduction to NATS, then dive in to some of the many features of NATS like communication patterns, streaming/persistence, key/value and more. This session is highly interactive so come ready to participate and have fun!