At the core of a microservices software architecture lies the ability for each containerized workload to communicate with one another in a secure and dynamic fashion. Cloud native messaging system NATS has been providing this sort of functionality since its inception in 2010, and now with NATS 2.0, the open source messaging service has upped the ante, providing something that NATS creator Derek Collison says is akin to “containers for messaging,” with improved security, multitenancy, decentralized management and global scale.