June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 53m
English

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—Arthur C. Clarke
It’s quite likely, if you’re coming at this from a non-C/C++ background, that you’ve never heard of Remote Procedure Calls (RPC). This is a shame, because not only has RPC been around for a while, it’s also a fairly interesting idea that opens the door to a whole new generation of cutting-edge, network-based services.
Stripped down to its bare bones, RPC defines a client-server framework for distributed computing, allowing procedures on a server to be remotely executed by a client. The existing network ...
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