The "Neural Autonomic Transport System", a cross-platform messaging technology.

Learn the basics of Python async:

• asyncio IDS tutorial

For further information, refer to the asyncio documentation.

• Have a look at NATS : Connective Technology for Adaptive Edge & Distributed Systems,

• Install the official NATS Python client and tools,

• Test the NATS client with 01_hello_world.py (demo server),

• Install and start the NATS server binary/service,

• Adapt hello world to test your local NATS server.

Learn the basics of the NATS Python client API:

• connect

• subscribe

• publish

• Subscription and Subscription.next_msg,

• Message, Message.data and Message.reply.

• Identity. Select an name to identify yourself (e.g. boisgera for myself).

• Heartbeat. Send every second a message with subject "❤️" and with data your (utf-8 encoded) name.

• Alive Create a python file with an async function alive that list (once, alphabetically) each name that has at least one heartbeat over a 3.0 second. Print each name on a line when the python file is invoked as a script.

• Watcher. Use rich to make a script that continuously display the list of heartbeat names.

• Inbox. Subscribe to the channel which is your name and print every message that you receive in this channel. Combine this program with the publication of your heartbeat.

• Greetings. Send a (utf-8 encoded) greeting message to a person who has a heartbeat.

• Reply. Send another message to someone with a specific question. Specify the reply argument to publish in order to get an answer!

• Replies. There are several way to identify among all the messages that you get which one correspond to the answer to a specific message you get. One way consists in using an ephemeral channel which you will use only for this answer, and specify its (uniquely generated name) in the reply argument.

• JSON. Make some NATS server to provide access to search Chuck Norris Jokes and also make the corresponding client.