2.0 Overview

2.1 Architecture Overview

Nodes form a Matrix Mesh—a self-aware grid of services that replicate deltas through typed Rust traits. Each cell represents a bounded scope of state or computation, and synchronization occurs asynchronously through gRPC or QUIC channels.

2.2 IBM Mesh Integration

Each cell is packaged as a microservice[L1] deployed into a Kubernetes cluster (IKS/OpenShift). Mesh routing provides observability, mTLS[L2], and circuit breaking between service endpoints(Q: Why circuit breaking ?).

[L1]https://www.ibm.com/products/instana/microservices-monitoring?p1=Search&p4=1156909374429&p5=p&p9=166894549610&gad_campaignid=21985111815 [L2]https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/what-is-mutual-tls/

2.3 Resilience Strategy

The system employs redundancy at three levels:

• Physical: IBM Cloud multi-zone VPCs
• Network: Layer-7 retries with Load balancing [L1]
• Logical: Multi-authority consensus[like Proxmox] and delta replay buffers[see all the changes of state for the matrix, send those out, sync to other node, or store for analysis - Alexander Nava].

[L1]https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-network-load-balancers

2.1 IBM Cloud Regions, Zones, and HA Topology (MZR, multi-AZ) : [U2]

Each IBM region contains three availability zones, allowing deployment across failure domains for fault isolation and fast recovery.

[U2] : https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-vpc

2.1.1 Zone Distribution

Distribute pods and storage volumes across zone-1, zone-2, zone-3 to achieve high availability.