I feel like this separation is achievable, if only because it's been achieved several times already. Google App Engine did it. Heroku did it. Cloud Foundry did

I feel like this separation is achievable, if only because it's been achieved several times already. Google App Engine did it. Heroku did it. Cloud Foundry did it. In none of these situations does an app developer need to know or care how the bits are plumbed, they only need to enjoy hot and cold running code.