Ethereum is indeed not meant for distributed computing, You should use Ethereum only for consensus and avoid any unneeded processing, the blockchain is there to

Ethereum is indeed not meant for distributed computing, You should use Ethereum only for consensus and avoid any unneeded processing, the blockchain is there to avoid 'cheating' it's not meant to be a backend. As for frameworks I guess you are referring to Embark: https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework https://github.com/iurimatias/embark-framework