OCT

Your MQTT Broker Is Holding You Back

October 15, 2026

5:00 PM

Keep MQTT — add the enterprise backbone. Devices connect unchanged to NATS's built-in MQTT endpoint, while one unified namespace spans your sites and lets apps ask questions of the data, not just listen. Data survives outages at the site, and the cloud gets only what it actually needs.

What you'll leave with

Where MQTT belongs and where a NATS backbone takes over
One unified namespace across sites — events, queries, and services on the same data plane

Work with NATS experts in this interactive workshop. You'll learn how to empower MQTT to do what it does best, while bring NATS on-board to improve connectivity and the issues that can come with that.

Speakers

Borja Etxebarria

Borja Etxebarria, based in San Francisco, CA, US, is currently a Solutions Engineering Director at Synadia. Borja Etxebarria brings experience from previous roles at Confluent, Tibco Software Inc. and Oasys Soft.

Hosts

Synadia

Applications are moving beyond the cloud — to devices, to the factory floor, and across geographies. Synadia's low-latency messaging platform, built on the open-source NATS project, gives industrial and IoT systems one connective layer that runs from the far edge to the core without re-architecting each time the system changes. For IIoT and edge teams, that means real-time pub/sub and durable streaming across constrained networks, store-and-forward when connectivity drops, and native MQTT support so existing devices and brokers integrate without a rewrite. Whether you're building a Unified Namespace, streaming OT telemetry to the cloud, or running intelligent applications at remote sites, NATS keeps producers and consumers decoupled and data moving where it's needed. NVIDIA, Mastercard, Rivian, and Replit rely on Synadia to reduce infrastructure complexity, move data in real time, and run intelligent applications wherever they need to.