Derek Collison
@derekcollison
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CEO @synadia, creator of @nats_io and a bunch of other stuff. Past: Apcera, VMWare, Google, TIBCO, JHU/APL.
Miami FL, USA
Joined May 2007
Down and out. Normally, not a good thing. But in distributed systems, down and out is where the world is headed. Down to smaller devices. Out to environments beyond data center walls. Is your streaming and messaging infra ready for that trip? --- If you're all-in on Kafka,
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NATS News Monthly December 2025 đ As we wrap up the year, take a peek at our last newsletter of 2025. What's inside, you ask? đ NATS KubeCon NA 2025 videos đ How to deploy a scalable NATS cluster đ The NATS 2.12.1 Jepsen report Thank you to everyone in our community who
synadia.com
NATS KubeCon NA 2025 videos, how to deploy a scalable NATS cluster, and the NATS 2.12.1 Jepsen report.
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Surround yourself with people that get excited and happy when others succeed.
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Where will your AI agents live? It's the question almost no one is asking. The industry is obsessed with frameworks, tool use, reasoning patterns, context windows. But the deployment questionâwhere these agents actually run and how they get the context they needâis an
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Some interesting news in the streaming world this week - that makes it a good time to reflect on where we are and where things are heading: For years, the default choice for streaming was obvious. You picked the dominant platform, deployed it in your cloud, and scaled up from
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Demand for clean, reliable power is surging - and nuclear's moment is only beginning. Consider Investing in a new cycle of potential growth with $NUKZ.
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Thereâs code, troubleshooting from real-world load testing, and a bunch of practical fixes youâll actually use. https://t.co/eRHXYV7TP5
one2n.io
Learn how to deploy a scalable, production-ready NATS cluster using Docker, complete with observability via Prometheus and Grafana. This hands-on demo covers cluster design, stream replication,...
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Feel free to stop by and say hello - Iâll be there
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Why: - static allocation is a forcing function for teams for good design - âcorrectness is a design problem not a language problemâ - âsome may hear BDFL and see governance risk, but I fear the opposite: conceptual risk, the harder problem.â https://t.co/xPyfOQLVDL
tigerbeetle.com
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
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Schaeffler's NATS architecture - 100+ plants, billions of messages daily. Jean-Noel Moyne & Max Arndt: â No firewalls opened â Global stream replication â 50+ apps at scale
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Unlock Asia's green growth opportunities and drive decarbonisation strategies from SG.
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Our long-time engineer & NATS wizard Wally rarely gets to experience the "fruits of his labor." But @Rivian's Halloween Mode has been especially fulfilling. đđ» Checkout Wally's Rivian in action this week! Of course, he'd say the real magic happens in the messaging layer!
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It has been an amazing partnership with the @Rivian team pushing innovation into connected cars. Many of @synadia customers term us the "decentralized nervous system" - in this case that is very true. https://t.co/vJ84rtrkEL
linkedin.com
As a long time distributed systems engineer working on mission-critical and low-latency data services, I rarely get to experience the âfruits of my laborâ. Even though NATS.io touches people on a...
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The new IO interface has just been introduced in Zig. Itâs a major breaking change, but also a super exciting one. This is finally async done right.
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Been an amazing journey so far - and it still feels like we are just getting started.
Tomorrow @nats_io turns 15! We're celebrating with gifts... for you! Here's how it works: 1. Post here on X about why NATS is a great fit for your specific use case. The more details the better! 2. Tag the @nats_io and @synadia accounts in your post 3. We'll message you with
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Are we trading in the 21st century or 19th? @IOHK_Charles argues global commerce is restricted by antiquated paper-based regulations. We can fly globally, but our money can't flow globally. Itâs time to move past fragmented markets.
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#Zigtoberfest 2025 was a blast! Everything from the speaker lineup and talks to the selection of beers and "Spezi" was fantastic, the organization perfect! David organized, hosted, moderated, live-streamed, recorded, catered, and financed it all by himself, so if you can, pls
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What makes Zig conferences unique is that theyâre not just about Zig; theyâre about sharing knowledge across a wide range of unrelated topics, from people experimenting with all kinds of crazy ideas. Itâs incredibly mind-opening.
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Andrew's talk on Zig's new asynchronous I/O is now available to watch: #Ziglang #programming
https://t.co/kAuWgfiP4l
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Why the Zig programming language matters, when to use it, and why correctness is a system design problem, not a language problem. Interesting thoughts from @jorandirkgreef. https://t.co/XGjeizeFRy
tigerbeetle.com
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
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Amazing! Synadia and TigerBeetle donated $512K over 2 years to Zig. @derekcollison and @jorandirkgreef are awesome, thanks for doing this.
tigerbeetle.com
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Excited to share that TigerBeetle and @synadia have pledged $512,000 to the @ziglang Software Foundation. Zig changed my life, making TigerBeetle possible. It's been an adventure these past 5 years, and thrilled to pay it forward, together with my friend @derekcollison.
Excited to announce that TigerBeetle and @synadia have pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. https://t.co/rcweri9HpD
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