For what you are trying to do, making remote things seem local transparently, I would recommend looking into Erlang. Not to write it in, but to see how it can be done really well. Erlangs basic model is that of communicating processes, usually on the sames machine and interpreter instance. But with virtually no code change at all, one Erlang process on one machine, can communicate with another process on another machine half the world away. Of course this is all built into the Erlang interpreter, but I would still recommend looking at it to see how others are accomplishing similar goals.