I'm still digesting the paper (it's rather long) but working through multi-cloud brokers reminds me of Leslie Lamport's sarcastic description of distributed sys

I'm still digesting the paper (it's rather long) but working through multi-cloud brokers reminds me of Leslie Lamport's sarcastic description of distributed systems: A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. [0] I would like to see a research direction that reduces dependencies in could systems rather than increasing them. p.s., There have been a number of industrial attempts to commercialize the cloud broker idea. None have succeeded to my knowledge--the market does not seem to be there. [0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.tx...