nanite is for individual application where you know every part of the system is allowed to talk to one another. Vertebra is for wide area networking and assumes

nanite is for individual application where you know every part of the system is allowed to talk to one another. Vertebra is for wide area networking and assumes hostility so does a lot more security isolation. Vertebra is for controlling clusters and clouds at large while nanite is for building scalable backends for individual apps.