&gt;&quot;<i>So.. nanomsg is 10x faster. Why would one use nats?</i>&quot;<p>The article comparing the performance of all those messaging systems conveniently &quot;groups&quot; them into two groups. Brokerless, and brokered. Putting Nats into the latter, despite it not sharing any of the main things that we are used to with a brokered system. I.e. Transactions and persistance.<p>So, it&#x27;s safe to say that in that context and those properties, there is no reason to use NATS over nanomsg.