## Background and motivation

Motivations to implement ztunnel generally came from two areas.

First, and most importantly, it serves as a means to implement the real goal: waypoints.
For various reasons outside the scope of this document, there is a desire to move from a sidecar based architecture to a "remote proxy" architecture.

  // shuffle sharding of requests into queues.  When enqueuing a request
  // at this priority level the request's flow identifier (a string
  // pair) is hashed and the hash value is used to shuffle the list
  // of queues and deal a hand of the size specified here.  The
  // request is put into one of the shortest queues in that hand.
  // `handSize` must be no larger than `queues`, and should be
  // significantly smaller (so that a few heavy flows do not

  // shuffle sharding of requests into queues.  When enqueuing a request
  // at this priority level the request's flow identifier (a string
  // pair) is hashed and the hash value is used to shuffle the list
  // of queues and deal a hand of the size specified here.  The
  // request is put into one of the shortest queues in that hand.
  // `handSize` must be no larger than `queues`, and should be
  // significantly smaller (so that a few heavy flows do not

  // shuffle sharding of requests into queues.  When enqueuing a request
  // at this priority level the request's flow identifier (a string
  // pair) is hashed and the hash value is used to shuffle the list
  // of queues and deal a hand of the size specified here.  The
  // request is put into one of the shortest queues in that hand.
  // `handSize` must be no larger than `queues`, and should be
  // significantly smaller (so that a few heavy flows do not

  // shuffle sharding of requests into queues.  When enqueuing a request
  // at this priority level the request's flow identifier (a string
  // pair) is hashed and the hash value is used to shuffle the list
  // of queues and deal a hand of the size specified here.  The
  // request is put into one of the shortest queues in that hand.
  // `handSize` must be no larger than `queues`, and should be
  // significantly smaller (so that a few heavy flows do not