40 Years of Pretending

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Covers the history and problems of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) since RFC 674 (1974), detailing the concrete issues RPC introduces in distributed systems. Examines why RPC is resurging—particularly in environments that run the same language on server and browser (JavaScript and compile-to-JS languages)—and presents actionable alternative approaches to tightly coupled remote calls.

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