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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

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Five purpose-built layers. No container runtime, no orchestrator, no service mesh overhead. Just your code, sandboxed and deployed.

LAYER BY LAYER

Five layers.
Zero bloat.

Every layer is purpose-built for WASM. No container runtime overhead. No Kubernetes complexity. Just your code, sandboxed and deployed.

YOUR CODELAYER 1

Rust, Go, Python, JS -- compiled to WASM. Any language that targets the WASI 0.2 Component Model.

NECTAR RUNTIMELAYER 2

Wasmtime 40 execution engine. Snapshot restore, fuel metering, capability-based security. Sub-millisecond cold starts.

QUEEN SCHEDULERLAYER 3

Placement engine scoring capacity, proximity, load, cost, and compliance across 15 regions. Automatic failover.

STINGER FUNCTIONSLAYER 4

Serverless compute layer. HTTP handlers, event triggers, cron schedules. Scale to zero. Pay per invocation.

DATA LAYERLAYER 5

Cells object storage, Silos Postgres, Buzz queues, Pollen secrets -- all integrated via WASI capability handles.

DATA FLOW

How data moves through Hives.

Client→StingerHTTPS request hits the nearest edge node and routes to your Stinger function.
Stinger→NectarFunction code executes in a WASM sandbox with fuel metering and memory limits.
Nectar→Cells / SilosData reads and writes go through WASI capability handles. No HTTP overhead.
Nectar→BuzzAsync work dispatches to queues. Consumers process in parallel with exactly-once delivery.
Waggle→StingerScheduled jobs fire at the specified cron interval. Leader-elected, single execution.

See it in action.

Deploy your first workload and watch the architecture work for you.

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