--- title: The Secret Sauce for AI Infrastructure | daily.dev description: NATS is highlighted as a widely used but underappreciated backbone for AI infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. Its capabilities — load... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-secret-sauce-for-ai-infrastructure-sz2mpt3cb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Secret Sauce for AI Infrastructure | daily.dev og:description: NATS is highlighted as a widely used but underappreciated backbone for AI infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. Its capabilities — load... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-secret-sauce-for-ai-infrastructure-sz2mpt3cb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Sz2MPt3CB.png og:image:alt: The Secret Sauce for AI Infrastructure og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Secret Sauce for AI Infrastructure **[Ardan Labs \(YouTube\)](https://daily.dev/sources/ardanlabs-youtube)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NATS is highlighted as a widely used but underappreciated backbone for AI infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. Its capabilities — load balancing, request-reply, key-value stores, object stores, and work queues — make it a go-to secret weapon for many AI product companies that focus on building infrastructure around LLMs rather than the models themselves. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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