I'm not familiar with this family of technology, so forgive the dumb question:

But.. what is this?

I read the landing page and browsed a couple examples and I have no clue what I would use it for.

Would it be a pile of distributed workers handling jobs? Sort of like pushing a job into a job queue and having a bunch of workers consume jobs?

If that's the case, what are some reasons I might choose this Bastion model over a more traditional JobQueue <-> Worker model?

Thanks to any replies. I feel I should be interested, but I'm confused :)