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Jetstream does indeed have message persistence: I can issue queries like “get messages on topic since 5 minutes ago” - I do this a ton. However, that seems to be the extent of the storage/query API that it exposes for historical messages. I’m quite a big fan, and would recommend it with the caveat that Jetstream is considerably more complex than simple nats and I get the feeling I’m barely scratching the surface with it.

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NATS JetStream also implements subject-based addressing at the stream level (unlike Kafka where 1 stream = 1 topic, and you can only use the message's key for distribution, not for addressing).

So you can for example ask for [the first/the last/all] of the messages on a particular subject, or on a hierarchy of subjects by using wildcards. All the filtering is done at the server level.

I’m really interested in a Kafka like message broker in the Go ecosystem and look forward to checking it out for whatever my next project ends up being.

It’s pretty cool. I would personally suggest Kafka or RabbitMQ depending on your needs, as Jetstream has proven to require a lot of ops engineering to remain stable in production

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