Distributed systems expert Jonas Bonér discusses the most common barriers to building truly elastic data-centric distributed applications and the fundamental principles that can help transcend these barriers and unlock the capabilities of cloud, multicloud, and edge to build elastic, resilient, and highly responsive digital experiences. He explores physically co-locating the data and processing with the end user, decentralized self-organization and replication across discrete environments, building services that are autonomous, self-replicating, mobile, and location transparent—as a way to deliver guaranteed application resilience, cloud and data sovereignty, nearly infinite throughput, end-user low latency, and infrastructure efficiency.