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+# Netapp - a toolkit library for distributed software
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+Netapp is a Rust library that takes care of a few common tasks in distributed software:
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+- establishing secure connections
+- managing connection lifetime, reconnecting on failure
+- checking peer's state
+- peer discovery
+- query/response message passing model for communications
+- multiplexing transfers over a connection
+- overlay networks: full mesh or random peer sampling using Basalt