Scalable Alternative to Apache Kafka and Flink for Advanced Streaming While NORAD’s real-time tracking of Santa Claus’s sleigh across the globe is an annual tradition of the ultimate fleet manager, the NATS.io community is constantly challenging the boundaries of what is possible from a distributed scale perspective. Whether for creating interactive analytic dashboards for fleets of millions of sensors, to integrating plant floor data for predictive maintenance, or delivering latency sensitive AI workflows to edge devices, the topics discussed in this article are exactly the areas that distributed engineers and architects are trying to solve today.