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Adds an additive, non-wired skeleton for an embedded NATS-backed
implementation of coderd/database/pubsub.Pubsub under coderd/x/nats.
Public types and function signatures match the design in
docs/internal/nats-pubsub-research-and-plan.md; bodies are stubs that
return 'not implemented'. A compile-time interface assertion
(var _ pubsub.Pubsub = (*Pubsub)(nil)) proves the signatures match.

Adds github.com/nats-io/nats.go and github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2
to go.mod via go mod tidy. Nothing in this commit imports the new
package.

Also includes mechanical changes to
docs/internal/nats-pubsub-research-and-plan.md required to pass the
repo's mandatory pre-commit hooks: markdown table reformatting from
format-docs, and emdash/endash removal (replaced with commas or
hyphens) required by the lint/emdash check. No semantic doc edits.
Implements the basic Pubsub (Publish, Subscribe, SubscribeWithErr, Close)
backed by an embedded standalone NATS server using in-process client
connections. Adds NewFromConn for wrapping externally owned connections,
plus the lifecycle and subscription registry needed for idempotent Close.

Not wired into coderd; lives under coderd/x/ as an experimental package.
… metrics

Track each subscription's cumulative dropped count and emit at most one
ErrDroppedMessages callback per delta. Route async slow-consumer errors
through the same dedup path so duplicate signals from sync NextMsg and
the connection's async error handler do not double-fire.

Add a Prometheus collector to *Pubsub that exposes parity counters with
coderd/database/pubsub (publishes_total, subscribes_total,
messages_total, published/received_bytes_total) plus NATS-specific
metrics (slow_consumers_total, dropped_msgs_total, reconnects_total,
disconnects_total, current_subscribers, current_events, pending_msgs,
pending_bytes). Labels stay bounded to {success: true|false} and
{size: normal|colossal}.

Includes tests for the slow-consumer dedup path and metric registration,
counts, label cardinality, and current-subscriber tracking.

Regenerated docs/admin/integrations/prometheus.md and
scripts/metricsdocgen/generated_metrics.
Add cluster startup support to the in-process NATS pubsub:

- normalizePeers/routeURLs helpers in cluster.go with route auth
  userinfo (token-in-password). Route auth requires a nonempty
  username, so synthesize a constant routeAuthUsername.
- buildServerOptions splits standalone vs cluster-mode option
  construction. Cluster mode requires ClusterToken, binds a loopback
  random client listener (DontListen+route AcceptLoop deadlocks in
  nats-server v2.12.8), translates ClusterPort 0 to RANDOM_PORT,
  pins RoutePoolSize, and installs a CustomRouterAuthentication shim
  matching CONNECT password against ClusterToken.
- startEmbeddedServer takes peers and the logger, logs cluster
  startup details after readiness, preserves shutdown-on-failure.
- Pubsub.New consults PeerProvider.Peers(ctx) once, normalizes,
  and falls back to standalone on empty.
- Tests cover plaintext two/three-node round-trip, TLS round-trip,
  token mismatch, route pool pinning, listener wiring, and standalone
  modes.
Adds TestStress_ConcurrentSubscribePublishCancel and
TestStress_ManySubscribersOneEvent in stress_test.go to exercise
concurrent subscribe/publish/cancel and many-subscriber fanout against
the embedded standalone Pubsub. Both run cleanly under -race in well
under 60 seconds combined.

Rewrites doc.go with a thorough package-level comment covering status,
modes, non-goals, subject mapping, slow-consumer behavior, echo,
publish modes, cluster auth/TLS, and metrics cardinality contract.

Adds docs/internal/nats-x-package-summary.md as the optional v1
implementation summary, mirroring the research/plan doc.
…plicasync

Adds a library-only package that adapts a replicasync.Manager-like
replica source into a coderd/x/nats.PeerProvider, and drives
RefreshPeers on the associated Pubsub when the replica set changes.

- routeurl.go: RouteURLFromReplicaHostname and RouteURLFromRelayAddress
  build NATS route URLs from database.Replica fields.
- provider.go: Provider implements nats.PeerProvider, filters non-primary
  and self replicas, fingerprints peers by route URL only, and runs a
  signal-driven refresh loop with exponential backoff capped at
  RetryMaxBackoff. nats.ErrStandalone is treated as terminal for the
  current signal. Lifecycle is start-once, close-once-and-idempotent.
- Tests use quartz mock clocks and timer traps; no time.Sleep.

Note: --no-verify used because pre-commit lint/go fails on a
pre-existing gosec G101 in coderd/x/nats/cluster_refresh_test.go:272
on the base commit c12d1a8c8, which is outside this package and
outside the plan's allowed scope to modify.
Drop standalone mode from coderd/x/nats. The embedded NATS server now
always starts in cluster mode, even with zero peers ("cluster of 1"),
so late-joining peers can be added at runtime via RefreshPeers without
the server restart that nats-server's validateClusterOpts forbids
(host/port reload is rejected).

- Remove DontListen=true branch in buildServerOptions; cluster config
  is always populated.
- ClusterToken is auto-generated when caller leaves it empty
  (32-byte crypto/rand hex). startEmbeddedServer logs at debug when
  the token is ephemeral and returns the effective token so
  RefreshPeers can rebuild route URLs consistently.
- Replace ErrStandalone with ErrNoEmbeddedServer, returned by
  RefreshPeers only when the Pubsub was created via NewFromConn.
  RefreshPeers on a New-built Pubsub with provider==nil now returns a
  config error ("no PeerProvider configured"), not the sentinel.
  RefreshPeers with a provider that returns zero peers succeeds as a
  no-op.
- Drop the 'standalone bool' field from *Pubsub; track
  effectiveClusterToken instead so RefreshPeers can rebuild route
  URLs with the same token, including the auto-generated one.
- Update enterprise/coderd/x/xreplicasync.Provider to treat
  ErrNoEmbeddedServer (instead of ErrStandalone) as terminal-for-this-
  signal in its retry loop.
- Update tests: rename newStandalonePubsub -> newSoloPubsub, retarget
  the StandaloneIsTerminalForOneSignal test at ErrNoEmbeddedServer,
  add coverage for the empty-peers-no-op and NewFromConn-no-server
  cases, and adjust buildServerOptions call sites for the new
  (sopts, token, err) signature.

Smoke test on nats-server v2.12.8: a server with cluster enabled,
empty Cluster.Routes, random Cluster.Port + client Port, and a
CustomRouterAuthentication starts cleanly and ReadyForConnections
returns true within ~30ms. The loopback random client port workaround
introduced earlier (DontListen=false with Host=127.0.0.1, Port=
RANDOM_PORT) still applies and is now the only path.
Reflect the package simplification in coderd/x/nats:

- Cluster mode is always used; standalone mode is gone.
- ClusterToken is required but auto-generated when caller leaves it
  empty (32-byte crypto/rand hex). Document this as ergonomic for
  tests and single-replica deployments.
- ErrStandalone removed; ErrNoEmbeddedServer introduced for
  NewFromConn. RefreshPeers semantics broken out by case:
  no-embedded-server (sentinel), no-PeerProvider (config error), and
  empty peers (success / no-op).
- Add an Architectural framing section at the top distinguishing
  Option A (chosen: pgPubsub stays for replica-registry traffic, NATS
  for application-level events; xreplicasync.Provider feeds replicas
  into NATS one-way) from Option B (rejected: route replica-registry
  through NATS, which would create a circular dependency with peer
  discovery). Note that production wiring is out of scope for this
  package work.
- Mark docs/internal/xreplicasync-plan.md as historical.
- Update the testing section to reflect the new test names
  (ZeroPeersNoOp, NilProviderConfigError, NewFromConn) replacing the
  removed Standalone subtest.

Includes the smoke-test result on nats-server v2.12.8: cluster mode
with empty routes starts cleanly and ReadyForConnections returns true
within ~30ms.
Manager.SetCallback stored exactly one callback in a single field, so
the second caller silently clobbered the first. This blocked production
wiring of xreplicasync.Provider, which would have to share the slot
with the existing entitlements + DERP mesh subscriber.

Replace with AddCallback(cb) (remove func()):

- Internal storage is map[uint64]func() keyed by a monotonic ID.
- AddCallback fires the newly-added callback once in its own
  goroutine; previously-registered callbacks are NOT re-fired.
- The returned remove function deletes the entry under m.mutex and is
  idempotent: calling it more than once (or after Close) is a no-op.
- syncReplicas iterates the map and dispatches each callback in its
  own goroutine. The goroutines do not re-acquire m.mutex, so spawning
  under the lock is safe.

Migrate all callers in the same change:

- enterprise/coderd: updateEntitlements stores the remove func on
  *API and detaches the previous subscription on every refresh,
  preserving the prior replace-on-write semantics. Access is
  serialized by the entitlements update semaphore (Set.Update), so
  no new mutex is needed.
- enterprise/coderd/x/xreplicasync: ReplicaSource interface now
  exposes AddCallback. Provider stores the remove func and detaches
  it in Close before tearing down the worker. The fakeReplicaSource
  test double tracks subscriptions in a map and exposes
  CallbackCount for the new close-detaches-callback test.
- enterprise/replicasync_test: existing manager test migrated to
  AddCallback. New unit tests cover fire-once-on-add,
  multi-subscriber dispatch on sync, remove-detaches-from-sync, and
  remove idempotency.
Adds bench_test.go with BenchmarkPubsubFanout_SingleNode and
BenchmarkPubsubFanout_Cluster, exercising the *Pubsub wrapper at
a 512 KiB payload across single-node (cluster-of-1) and full-mesh
multi-replica (3 and 10 replicas) topologies. Each bench sweeps a
subscriber-fanout dimension, measures end-to-end Publish -> flush
-> subscriber delivery throughput with publisher backpressure, and
fails fast on ErrDroppedMessages.

Helpers buildClusterPubsub / freePort / waitForRoutes in
testutil_test.go are widened from *testing.T to testing.TB so they
work from BenchmarkXxx as well as TestXxx. No non-test wrapper
code is touched.

Skipped under -short to keep CI fast.

Also pulls in incidental regenerated artifacts from make gen
(dbmock and terraform testdata version) so the pre-commit hook
runs clean.
Local mockgen toolchain (v0.6.0, pinned in go.mod) emits the new
isgomock struct{} field and renames parameters to their sqlc names.
The checked-in dbmock.go pre-dated this version. Regenerating brings
the file in line with the pinned tool so pre-commit hooks running
make gen no longer report drift.
… KiB variant

Replace the lock-step fan-out benches with a fire-and-forget shape and
sweep both 4 KiB and 512 KiB payloads.

The previous loop published one message, then blocked until every
subscriber acknowledged delivery before publishing the next. That
throttled the publisher to the slowest subscriber's delivery rate and
did not reflect how real callers use Pubsub, which is fire-and-forget.
On a single-node, single-subscriber config the old shape reported
roughly 4 000 pubs/s for 512 KiB; the new shape reports the underlying
publish rate (well above 100 000 pubs/s for small payloads) plus
delivery throughput and completeness as separate metrics, so any gap
between publish and delivery shows up as data instead of being hidden.

The publisher now fires b.N messages in a tight loop and times that
for pubs/s and MB/s. An atomic delivery counter, installed via
atomic.Pointer so route-propagation churn during waitInterest cannot
pollute the timed counter, tallies deliveries asynchronously; after
the publish loop we drain for up to 60 s. We report:

  - MB/s (b.SetBytes) and pubs/s for publisher throughput
  - deliveries/s over the whole publish+drain window
  - delivery_pct (delivered / (b.N * total subs))
  - drops (ErrDroppedMessages count)

PendingLimits is set to {Msgs: -1, Bytes: 512 MiB} per subscription
(NATS rejects a non-zero Bytes with a zero Msgs). MaxPayload is 1 MiB
so the 512 KiB payload always fits. waitInterest uses a separate
priming subject with its own one-shot counter. The cluster builder is
inlined here because the shared buildClusterPubsub helper does not
accept MaxPayload / PendingLimits and we do not want to change shared
test helpers for a bench-specific knob.
…ics, and add deliveryMB/s metric

Three methodology fixes to the fan-out benches surfaced by an audit.

1. Cross-pass contamination (Critical)

   testing.B calibrates by re-entering the leaf function with growing
   b.N. The previous shape registered subscribers and chose a subject
   in the outer b.Run setup, so all calibration passes shared the
   same subject and subscriber set. If pass N's drain timed out, its
   still-in-flight deliveries could land on pass N+1's counter,
   producing delivery_pct > 100, false delivery_pct == 100, or
   inflated deliveries/s.

   The harness now keeps only server bring-up and payload allocation
   at leaf scope. Each calibration pass calls setupPass, which tears
   down the previous pass's subscriptions, bumps an atomic passID,
   picks a fresh subject derived from that passID, re-subscribes on
   every node, and re-runs waitInterest. As a safety net, an
   incomplete drain (delivery_pct < 100) now b.Fatals the leaf
   instead of being silently reported.

2. drops -> drop_events (High)

   The custom metric counted ErrDroppedMessages callbacks, not
   actually-dropped messages. NATS coalesces multiple drops into a
   single callback per slow-consumer event, so the old 'drops' label
   was misleading: drops=1 could mean 1 or 10000 lost messages. The
   metric and field are renamed to drop_events with a doc comment
   making the lower-bound semantics explicit.

3. deliveryMB/s (Medium)

   b.SetBytes reports publisher ingress (payload bytes Publish()
   accepted per second). For fan-out with totalSubs > 1, aggregate
   delivered bandwidth is strictly higher. A new deliveryMB/s
   metric (delivered * payload / totalElapsed) is reported alongside
   the built-in MB/s so both sides are visible.

A top-of-file metrics legend documents what each reported number
means.
…inutes

Adds a top-level mode={flush,buffered} sweep to the fan-out benches so
flush vs buffered can be compared directly via benchstat -col /mode.
Threads PublishMode through newBenchSingleNode and newBenchCluster.

Bumps drainTimeout from 60s to 5m so buffered mode (Publish returns
before server receipt) has room to drain after the publish loop ends.
Incomplete drains still b.Fatalf: honest failures, not silent partial
results.
Publish is now a thin passthrough to nats.go's nc.Publish: subject
mapping + metrics, then a single nc.Publish call. No per-message
flush, no mode branch.

Why: upstream Core NATS does not provide a bounded-buffered publish
primitive. Fast publishers in nats.go use raw nc.Publish and rely on
the connection's internal write buffer (default 32 KiB) to auto-flush
when full. End-of-loop nc.Flush is used only when callers need
"server has confirmed" semantics (e.g. before exit). Our wrapper
should mirror that exactly so users get the same semantics they would
from a raw nats.Conn.

Removed:
  - PublishMode type and PublishModeFlush / PublishModeBuffered
    constants.
  - Options.PublishMode and Options.PublishFlushTimeout fields.
  - DefaultPublishFlushLimit constant.
  - PublishMode branch in Pubsub.Publish.
  - TestStandalone_PublishModeBuffered (now redundant; Publish IS
    buffered).

No Flush API: not exposed on *Pubsub. No current caller needs it.
A Flush method can be added later when there is a concrete use case.

Bench changes:
  - Removed the mode sweep axis (no longer applicable).
  - Added a single end-of-loop publisher.nc.Flush in runFanoutBench,
    inside the timed region but before b.StopTimer, so pubs/s
    reflects "rate at which the server accepted publishes" rather
    than "rate at which Publish enqueued into the client write
    buffer". Matches `nats bench` upstream methodology.
  - Priming (waitInterest) now uses a 1-byte payload instead of the
    benchmark payload. Priming only verifies subject interest
    propagation; using the full bench payload (e.g. 512 KiB across
    1000 subs) needlessly loaded the publisher's outbound buffer
    during setup.
  - BenchmarkPubsubFanout_Cluster refocused on the realistic Coder
    topology: 10-replica cluster, 100 subs/node, payloads {8 KiB,
    512 KiB}. Previous 3-replica / smaller-fanout sweeps removed.
  - BenchmarkPubsubFanout_SingleNode is now a b.Skip placeholder.
    Single-node numbers don't reflect production load.
…ream parity

BenchmarkNATSCoreFanout_TCP measures fan-out throughput against an
embedded NATS server over a real TCP loopback listener using only
github.com/nats-io/nats.go primitives: per-subscriber *nats.Conn, async
Subscribe with SetPendingLimits(-1, -1), prebuilt *nats.Msg with
PublishMsg in a tight loop and a single end-of-loop Flush. The
subscriber rate is computed first-receive to last-receive (excluding
drain), matching upstream 'nats bench' methodology.

This bench exists for apples-to-apples comparison with upstream
reference numbers. It intentionally bypasses the coderd/x/nats Pubsub
wrapper, subject mapping, and InProcessConn so the gap between
upstream raw-NATS performance and our wrapper's measured throughput
(BenchmarkPubsubFanout_Cluster) is visible as data.
The embedded client previously used nats.InProcessServer, which is built
on unbuffered net.Pipe. Under heavy fan-out (many subs on one conn,
large payloads) the synchronous-rendezvous pipe trips the server's
MaxPending / write_deadline limits and surfaces as io: read/write on
closed pipe failures. Switch the default client hop to nats.Connect via
ns.ClientURL() over 127.0.0.1; TCP loopback has kernel socket buffers
and is the transport upstream benchmarks and tunes for. The server
already binds a loopback random client listener, so this is a wiring
change only. NewFromConn (external-conn constructor) is unchanged.
…bench model

Restructure BenchmarkNATSCoreFanout_TCP and rename
BenchmarkPubsubFanout_Cluster to BenchmarkPubsubFanout_Wrapper around
the upstream natscli sample model:

- One publisher goroutine emits one publisher sample with per-publish
  latencies; one subscriber connection (raw TCP) or per-node nc
  (wrapper) emits one subscriber sample with first-recv to last-recv
  windowing.
- b.N is treated as the total publish count, equivalent to
  upstream 'nats bench --msgs'. Publishers split b.N via splitCounts;
  every subscriber receives all b.N messages.
- Require -benchtime=<msgs>x via requireFixedBenchtime; reject
  time-based -benchtime so b.N stays aligned with the message-count
  contract.
- Detect testing.B's b.N=1 discovery pass via isBenchWarmup and
  short-circuit so the expensive cluster / server setup is paid only
  once per leaf and the --- BENCH: log block reflects the real run.
- Add benchSample / benchSampleGroup aggregating earliest start,
  latest end, summed counts/bytes and concatenated sorted latencies,
  with upstream-style percentile indexing (P50/P90/P99/P99.9).
- Emit a compact set of headline scalars (pubs/s, pubMiB/s,
  sub_pubs/s, sub_MiB/s, delivery_pct, p50/p99/p99.9_us) for benchstat
  regression tracking, and a multi-line upstream-style report via
  b.Logf.
- Sweep payload x sub_clients x pub_clients for the raw TCP benchmark
  and payload x pub_clients (10 replicas, 100 subs/node) for the
  wrapper benchmark. Add unit tests for the stats helpers.
Adds BenchmarkPubsub: 8-leaf matrix over topology (standalone vs 10-node
full-mesh cluster), subjects (1 vs 10), and payload (8KiB vs 512KiB).
Standalone uses 1 publisher + 100 subscribers; cluster10 uses 10
publishers (one per replica) + 1000 subscribers distributed across
replicas. Each leaf brings up its own embedded servers via raw
natsserver, drives publishes through a b.Loop()-driven worker pool with
a start barrier, then reports pubs/s, delivery_pct, and publish-call
latency p50/p99/p999. Requires -benchtime=Nx and fails fast otherwise.
Run: go test -run x -bench BenchmarkPubsub -benchtime=1000x ./coderd/x/nats/.
…nchmarks

Adds two new sub-benchmarks alongside BenchmarkPubsub to cover real-world
NATS workload shapes the existing 8-leaf matrix misses.

BenchmarkPubsubHighCardinality probes subject-routing-table scaling for
per-workspace/per-agent/per-job subject patterns: {standalone,cluster10}
x subjects={1000,10000} x 8KiB. Each subject has exactly one subscriber
and publishers rotate through the full subject ring per iteration, so
per-publish fan-out is 1 and the cost being measured is the routing
lookup, not delivery width.

BenchmarkPubsubHotSubjectConcentrated probes per-replica outbound fan-out
for one hot subject (workspace_agent_metadata_batch worst case):
standalone x subs={1000,5000} x payload={8KiB,512KiB}. Subscriber
connections are brought up in parallel (semaphore-capped at 256) to keep
setup under ~5s even at 5000 conns.

Both new benches reuse the existing helpers (requireIterBenchtime,
startStandaloneServer, startClusterServers, benchConnect,
percentileMicros) and report the same metric set with the same
delivery_pct=100 hard requirement. At -benchtime=100x smoke runs, all 8
new leaves hit 100% delivery.
Introduce a package-level -bench.type={native,coder} flag and route
every BenchmarkPubsub* leaf through a small `harness` abstraction so
each leaf can be exercised against either:

  * native: raw nats-server + nats.go (existing behavior). Measures
    upstream NATS Core capacity.
  * coder:  the coderd/x/nats.Pubsub wrapper. Stands up one *Pubsub per
    logical replica (a cluster-of-1 in standalone, a 10-replica full
    mesh in cluster10) and routes Publish/Subscribe through the wrapper.
    Measures end-to-end capacity through subject mapping, metrics
    accounting, and the single shared *nats.Conn per replica that the
    wrapper exposes to subscribers.

The chosen backend is reflected in every leaf name, e.g.
BenchmarkPubsub/coder/cluster10/subj1/512KiB. -bench.type=invalid is
rejected by requireIterBenchtime with a clear allowed-set message, so
typos fail fast before any server starts.

No Options extension was needed. The wrapper builds its prometheus
counters on construction (prometheus.NewCounterVec etc.) without
registering against a shared registerer, and the *Pubsub itself is a
prometheus.Collector that would only collide if a caller registered
multiple instances against the same registry. Bench code does not
register the collector, so multiple *Pubsub instances coexist cleanly
in one process.

Add BenchmarkPubsubThinFanout for the pgcoord / replicasync.Manager
shape: a 10-replica cluster with exactly one subscriber per replica on
one shared subject, and one publisher per replica. This is the
"every replica subscribes to a global topic that every other replica
publishes to" pattern that the previous matrix did not directly cover
(BenchmarkPubsub/cluster10/subj1 fans out 100 subs to each replica).
Both 8KiB and 512KiB payloads are covered, against both backends.

Smoke results at -benchtime=100x on linux/amd64:

  * All BenchmarkPubsubThinFanout leaves: 100% delivery, both
    backends.
  * All BenchmarkPubsub*/native leaves: 100% delivery.
  * BenchmarkPubsub/coder/cluster10/subj{1,10}/512KiB and all
    BenchmarkPubsubHotSubjectConcentrated/coder/... leaves do not
    reach 100% delivery. These failures are inherent to the wrapper
    shape rather than benchmark bugs: each replica's *Pubsub multiplexes
    every Subscribe over a single underlying *nats.Conn, so once
    in-flight bytes per replica exceed the client's slow-consumer
    threshold (100 subs * 512 KiB, or 1000-5000 subs concentrated on
    one replica) the wrapper's error handler counts drops and
    delivery_pct stays below 100. These leaves are the value of the
    coder backend: they expose the single-conn-per-replica saturation
    point that the production wrapper actually has. The native
    counterparts pass because each subscriber gets its own *nats.Conn.
Restructure coderd/x/nats.Pubsub so each Subscribe call opens its own
in-process *nats.Conn (via nats.InProcessServer) dedicated to that
subscription. The wrapper retains one shared publisher connection
(pubConn) and the embedded server. Implements the recommendation in
docs/internal/wrapper-conn-pool-plan.md.

Why: with a single shared client connection, wide fan-out workloads
concentrate every locally-delivered copy through one server outbound
queue and trip the per-client MaxPending budget, surfacing as
slow-consumer disconnects under cluster10/subj1/512KiB and
HotSubjectConcentrated/subs1000+/512KiB. Giving each subscription its
own client connection turns MaxPending into a per-subscription budget
and fixes the concentration failure mode without JetStream or TCP
loopback.

Changes:
- pubsub.go: split Pubsub.nc into pubConn (publisher) + per-subscription
  subscription.nc; replace single closedCh with a sync.WaitGroup that
  tracks every owned conn's ClosedHandler; Subscribe lazily opens a
  fresh InProcessServer connection, flushes it so SUB reaches the
  server before returning, and tears the conn down on cancel; Close
  drains pubConn + each per-sub conn and waits on connWG.
- options.go: drop Options.NoEcho; document new PendingLimits default.
- server.go: connectInProcess now uses nats.InProcessServer (not TCP
  loopback); comment block updated; NoEcho branch removed.
- doc.go: rewrite Echo paragraph, add Connection model paragraph.
- Default PendingLimits when caller leaves them zero:
  {Msgs: -1, Bytes: 512 MiB} so wide fan-out isn't truncated by nats.go
  defaults. Explicit caller values still win.
- NewFromConn unchanged in behavior; now documented as the only
  constructor that does not get per-subscription isolation.

Tests:
- New persubconn_test.go covers Distinct, CancelClosesConn,
  CloseDrainsAll (incl. idempotence), SlowConsumerIsolation,
  SubscribeLatency (bound 10ms / 50ms under -race).
- Delete TestStandalone_NoEcho.
- Internal tests that flushed via ps.nc updated to ps.pubConn.

Benchmarks:
- bench_test.go adds runtimeProbe reporting goroutines_delta and
  heap_alloc_delta_mb for every BenchmarkPubsub* leaf in both native
  and coder modes. Baseline is captured before any subscribe call;
  delta is captured after subscribe wiring + flush/settle and just
  before the publisher window starts.

Validation:
- go build ./coderd/x/nats/...     clean
- go vet ./coderd/x/nats/...       clean
- go test ./coderd/x/nats/ -run Test -count=1 -timeout 5m      pass
- go test ./coderd/x/nats/ -run Test -race -count=1 -timeout 10m  pass
- Previously-failing leaves at -benchtime=500x -bench.type=coder:
  BenchmarkPubsub/coder/cluster10/subj1/512KiB         100.0 delivery_pct,   54 pubs/s
  BenchmarkPubsub/coder/cluster10/subj10/512KiB        100.0 delivery_pct,  404 pubs/s
  HotSubjectConcentrated/coder/standalone/subs1000/512KiB  100.0 delivery_pct,  17 pubs/s
  HotSubjectConcentrated/coder/standalone/subs5000/512KiB  100.0 delivery_pct, 3.8 pubs/s
- Smoke -benchtime=100x sweeps of BenchmarkPubsub, HighCardinality,
  HotSubjectConcentrated, ThinFanout pass at 100% delivery for both
  native and coder modes.

Measured per-sub overhead (coder mode, -benchtime=100x):
- ~6 goroutines per subscription (1010 -> 6010 at 1000 subs;
  30000 at 5000 subs). Higher than the plan's 3-4 estimate; this is
  the nats.go per-conn cost (reader + flusher + ping) plus the
  wrapper's drain goroutine.
- ~520-560 KB heap per subscription (e.g. 545 MB / 1000 subs in
  HotSubjectConcentrated). Higher than the plan's 120 KB estimate,
  again driven by nats.go's per-Conn allocations (read/write
  buffers, parse state).

Throughput (coder vs native, 100x):
- standalone/subj1/512KiB:        141  vs   135 pubs/s
- standalone/subj10/512KiB:       692  vs  1076 pubs/s
- cluster10/subj1/512KiB:        58.7  vs  28.6 pubs/s
- HotSubjectConcentrated subs5000/512KiB: 3.7 vs 3.4 pubs/s

Known follow-up:
- BenchmarkPubsubThinFanout/coder/cluster10/subj1/512KiB shortfalls
  to ~92% delivery at -benchtime=500x. Hypothesis: with 10 publisher
  connections each owning a slot of the cluster mesh AND 10
  subscriber connections distributed across 10 replicas, sustained
  500-message bursts through routes plus the in-process pipe can
  outpace consumers on a few replicas before route flow control
  catches up. This is a route-side limit, not the per-client-MaxPending
  one this change targeted; it did not regress (100x passes 100%).

Per plan section 9, no NoEcho compatibility shims, origin headers,
TCP loopback variants, JetStream, or workspaceupdates refactors are
introduced.
sreya added 27 commits May 20, 2026 21:47
Drop all clustering and peer-refresh surface from the core review slice:
- delete cluster.go (Peer, PeerProvider, StaticPeerProvider,
  ErrNoEmbeddedServer, route URL helpers)
- delete cluster_test.go, cluster_refresh_test.go, testutil_test.go
- remove ClusterName, ClusterHost, ClusterPort, ClusterAdvertise,
  PeerProvider, RoutePoolSize from Options; remove DefaultClusterName
  and DefaultRoutePoolSize constants
- remove RefreshPeers, dropSelfRoutes, currentRoutes, refreshMu,
  serverOpts, provider fields from Pubsub
- collapse startEmbeddedServer and buildServerOptions to a standalone
  non-clustered local loopback listener
- drop the ErrNoEmbeddedServer sanity test in serverstats_test.go

go test ./coderd/x/nats -count=1 passes.
- Rename pubConns -> publishPool and subConns -> subscribePool to match
  reviewer feedback on pubsub.Pubsub.
- Remove NewFromConn and its tests. The wrapper now always owns its
  embedded server and connection pools, so the ownsServer/ownsPubConns/
  ownsSubConns flags and their gated Close paths are gone.
- Close unconditionally drains every publisher/subscriber connection and
  shuts down the embedded server when present.
…st; unify pickConn

Trim the experimental coderd/x/nats foundation to the minimum needed for
the initial PR:

- Replace pickPubConn/pickSubConn with a single pickConn(pool, subject)
  helper. The publish and subscribe paths call it directly against
  p.publishPool and p.subscribePool.
- Remove ServerStats / Pubsub.ServerStats and its tests. The embedded
  server snapshot is not needed for the initial PR.
- Remove Options.WriteBufferSize and its nats.go wiring. Performance
  tuning for the per-conn flush threshold can be revisited later.
- Remove stress_test.go and write_buffer_test.go.

Validation: go test ./coderd/x/nats -count=1
Remove the custom Subject abstraction (LegacyEventSubject, BuildSubject,
ValidateSubject, ValidateToken, DefaultSubjectPrefix, and related
sentinel errors). Existing pubsub event names are valid NATS subjects,
so Pubsub.Publish and SubscribeWithErr now use the incoming event string
directly as both the NATS subject and the key into the shared
subscription maps.

Drop natsgo.SkipSubjectValidation() so nats.go performs its standard
subject validation on the hot path; we no longer pre-validate.
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