From 28af7bf4055967c2c26faadff731f2a08d0c2ad3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ginger Collison Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:04:38 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update faq.md --- faq.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/faq.md b/faq.md index 993e0b6..ce8fc6b 100644 --- a/faq.md +++ b/faq.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * [Who maintains NATS?](faq.md#who-maintains-nats) * [What clients does NATS support?](faq.md#what-client-support-exists-for-nats) * [What does the NATS acronym stand for?](faq.md#what-does-the-nats-acronym-stand-for) +* [What does STAN stand for?](faq.md#what-does-stan-stand-for) ### Technical Questions @@ -41,6 +42,10 @@ NATS was created by Derek Collison, who has over 25 years of experience designin NATS stands for Neural Autonomic Transport System. Derek Collison conceived NATS as a messaging platform that functions like a central nervous system. +### What does STAN stand for? + +NATS Streaming is also known as STAN, which is just NATS backward. NATS is at-most-once QoS messaging with no persistence, whereas NATS Streaming is at-least-once QoS, therefore, representing the opposite of NATS. + ### What language is NATS written in? The NATS server \(`nats-server`\) is written in Go. There is client support for a wide variety of languages. Please see the [Download](https://nats.io/download) page for more info.