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.
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.