In the not too distant past, most programs ran on a single computer. After the proliferation of JavaScript in the web browser, apps on mobile phones, and microservices in the cloud, most programs that we write today run across many computers. Whereas distributed systems used to be a specialty, today they are the default. We need to update other defaults to meet that demand.
One of the defaults that we need to update is the assumption that data has a location. Some systems try to treat remote objects as if they are local. DCOM uses object identifiers to make a proxy look like a ...
