Santa Claus and His Distributed Team` is a story about how Santa's team uses MongoDB 3.2 to build a scalable system for managing presents, with regional variations in schema design and data types. The team uses MongoDB's sharded cluster and document validation features to handle the immense variability in requests. Document validation ensures that all documents conform to a common structure, making it easier for the team to work together. The story also highlights the use of MongoDB's aggregation framework, specifically the `$lookup` operator, to perform complex queries across different collections. With MongoDB 3.2, the team can accommodate regional challenges such as distribution, schema variation, and complex queries, while maintaining flexibility and scalability. The technology enables large distributed teams to work on the same dataset with extra guarantees at the server level.