How is this not already achievable today? You’re free to use Cloudflare to cache, AWS for your web servers and GCP for your DB. It’s just not as practical to do this from an IAM standpoint and cloud providers are offering incentives to get more of your hosting business.
Not really, I used ten or fifteen web apps today and I was totally at the mercy of whoever designed them re: who had access to the data I generated, re: which front end I used, etc.
It's the user's trust preference that I want to matter, not the app developer's.
My NAS appliance has plenty of storage available, I want to select it as my storage backend so that if the internet goes down everything that doesn't require collaboration still works for me. And not because I've been very choosy about what code I rely on, but because that degree of composability is built into the protocols.
