Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

While OS abstractions turned out to be a poor choice for building distributed systems, programming language (PL) abstractions make much more sense. The most dominant abstraction is based on the idea of a remote procedure call, or RPC“Implementing Remote Procedure Calls” by Andrew D. Birrell, Bruce Jay Nelson. ACM TOCS, Volume 2:1, February 1984. The foundational RPC system upon which all others build. Yes, another pioneering effort from our friends at Xerox PARC. for shortIn modern programming languages, we might instead say ...