In nearly 20 years of building distributed systems, this has held true every. single. time. Trying to abstract away the distributed nature of a system inevitabl

In nearly 20 years of building distributed systems, this has held true every. single. time. Trying to abstract away the distributed nature of a system inevitably leads to pain and sorrow. I think having explicit knowledge about what is local and what is remote is critical, but having a single, universal address space, so any application can reference any resource, anywhere, when it logically needs to, would be great. They are just different things.