Another really cool feature I designed for NATS - a distributed CRDT based counter.
Distributed meaning infrastructure at a factory floor can have local counts that flows up to regional and global levels via stream replication and eventually end up at a global count. Seperate clusters all contributing to the total with regional/location views.
You can choose to have auditable counts etc
https://youtu.be/1Vx8CbrO89Y?is=a2pAe7s7_7SnCEuX
Scales like crazy solves very hard problems.
Spec:
https://github.com/nats-io/nats-architecture-and-design/blob/main/adr/ADR-49.md
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