> My insight is to wonder why can’t we have a virtual machine target a replicated state machine? Why can’t I ship my novel data structure, describe how to mutate it or query it, and then get everything else for free? If I were to go back to academics, then this would be my research area. The reason is that I believe answering this question is going to take decades, but the tasty fruit is efficient computation, low latency, and exceptional reliability.