Vantiq is a software development and deployment platform that enables the rapid building of real-time event-driven applications that convert raw streaming data into situational awareness and orchestrated intelligence. Vantiq hides the underlying complexity of real-time distributed solutions by providing highly agile tools and abstractions that cover the complete application development lifecycle from ideation to runtime management. Vantiq applications can be easily evolved as the business requirements and technologies inevitably changes. Vantiq applications are built independent of the physical deployment environment. Business logic is created without regard to where it will run. After an application is developed, Vantiq partitions the application and moves the appropriate logic to the appropriate nodes. This is true if there are ten or ten thousand nodes. The developers of the applications avoid dealing with low level middleware. During runtime, Vantiq moves the logic to the data or the data to the logic as needed.