ead to mesh outages, we believe it in fact improves the effective availability of a mesh. How can that be? There are three basic characteristics at play:</p>
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<p><strong>Statelessness</strong>. Mixer is stateless in that it doesn’t manage any persistent storage of its own.</p>
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<p><strong>Hardening</strong>. Mixer proper is designed to be a highly reliable component. The design intent is to achieve &gt; 99.999% uptime for any individual Mixer instance.</p>
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<p><strong>Caching 