December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is an interprocess communication that exchanges information between various distributed systems. A computer called Alice can call functions (procedures) in another computer called Bob in protocol format and can get the computed result back. Without implementing the functionality locally, we can request things from a network that lies in another place or geographical region.
The entire process can be broken down into the following steps: