Rethinking Connectivity
summary
Argues that connectivity needs practical redesign and offers concrete pillars — location independence and M:N communications among them — and a working stack: NATS (Apache‑2) plus Synadia NGS as a global, extensible mesh. Claims ~300M+ downloads, supports streaming, globally ordered messages, key‑value and object stores, digital‑twin replicas, self‑healing nodes, and sub‑20ms programmatic hops. Demonstrates spinning global responders and K/V twins in ~1–2 minutes without Kubernetes and shows secure, zero‑trust, multi‑operator federation that already runs in clouds and edge sites.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:47Why?
- 6:11Innovation is powered by connectivity
- 7:10What's to rethink?
- 11:00Connectivity pillars
- 11:47Fundamentals
- 16:50Topologies
- 21:42Security
- 23:28Persistence
- 25:26Materialized views
- 26:39Sources & mirrors
- 27:58Why do connectivity pillars matter?
- 29:20Example
- 36:52Connectivity 3.0
- 38:17NATS & NGS
- 42:37Coming next
- 46:55Learn more
- 47:20Outro
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