If the same effort were put into software stacks for this as gets put into stacks for cloud-first development and massively scalable devops, there would be lots

If the same effort were put into software stacks for this as gets put into stacks for cloud-first development and massively scalable devops, there would be lots of canned solutions to all these problems that are very mature and stable. You wouldn't have to know what a CRDT is or how NAT hole punching works any more than you need to know how a data center fabric or a SAN works to use cloud. See my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37743517#37746101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37743517#37746101