AnyCasts, Ep. 7:
Flying multi-regionally with NATS

March 24, 2023

In this episode, we explore the recently released embedded NATS support in AnyCable-Go and see how it can be used to simplify building multi-regional Rails/AnyCable applications on Fly.io.

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The topics covered in this video:

• Different pub/sub topologies for Action Cable and AnyCable applications.
• AnyCable-Go v1.3 configuration presents and how they simplify setting up AnyCable on Fly.
• Switching from Redis to embedded NATS for pub/sub.
• Fly regions and the fly-prefer-region header.
• Using ACLI to debug and test AnyCable applications from the command line.
• NATS super-clusters and gateways.