Overview : A distributed, fault-tolerant mesh of Rust-based nodes hosted across IBM Cloud multi-zone regions, forming a self-healing matrix that replicates state and services through asynchronous communication and super-trait logic.
[U1] : https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/
Defines IBM’s multi-zone redundancy model—regions composed of isolated availability zones—used to maintain uptime when a single zone or hardware cluster fails.
[U2] : https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-vpc
Describes how IBM Cloud’s VPC networking, combined with Application and Network Load Balancers, distributes traffic intelligently across redundant backend services.
[U3] : https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-nlb-vs-elb
Explains how IBM Cloud Internet Services (Cloudflare-powered) provides geo-aware load balancing and Anycast routing to route users to the nearest healthy node cluster.
[U4] : https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cis?topic=cis-global-load-balancer-glb-concepts
Extends the mesh to edge and on-prem systems with IBM Cloud Satellite, maintaining a unified control plane while executing data-plane workloads near the user.
[U5] : https://www.ibm.com/products/satellite