It's a little on the young side yet, and I have to prove out some of the apps/demos of it at scale, but it's coming along very nicely and shows a lot of promise.
Ultimately it's a public DHT that enables apps to punch through the NATs (to go direct device-to-device) and talk JSON to each other. It doesn't solve all the problems you face being distributed, but it's a good start :)
Are you aware of http://libswift.org/ ? The goals are different (swift is targeted more at bittorrent/multicast) but I think there is a lot of potential for crossover between the two projects.
Reminds me of JXTA with its Pipe abstraction, which works in environment where the only thing allowed is outgoing http. Are you familiar with it? It has the burden of XML though. I like the JSON approach.
Ultimately it's a public DHT that enables apps to punch through the NATs (to go direct device-to-device) and talk JSON to each other. It doesn't solve all the problems you face being distributed, but it's a good start :)