The Berkeley Ninja Project - Goals

Enable arbitrarily powerful services from small devices
User device acts as secure front-end
Computing done in the infrastructure
Ninja is about building up this infrastructure

Service code itself is short
Infrastructure provides enough to make services...
Scalable
Highly-Available
Fault-Tolerant
Customizable

Universal architecture for Internet-scale services
Programming model, execution environments
Support for wide range of user devices
Automatic service composition
Extensible to as-yet unknown application areas