It is for people who run big systems because the title includes the words "distributed computing". They might as well have called this paper "building skyscrapers in your back yard" (which is a pretty good name for a paper I think!). If you don't write your app to be capable of running on multiple nodes, you aren't doing distributed computing - you're doing concurrent computing.

If there's nothing out there that picks a stack for you, that could certainly be automated based on a Q&A for the dev. But it's arguable that this decision should not be automated, because this decision directly impacts how the app works.