Browse Teach Curate

Remote Procedure Call

Invoking a function on another machine as if it were local: arguments are serialized, sent over the network, executed remotely, and the result returned. Modern implementations like gRPC use a schema-defined binary encoding over HTTP/2, but the network's failure modes always leak through the abstraction.

jeremy Video

gRPC for Remote Procedure Calls Between Microservices

gRPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) framework for cross-language, cross-runtime communication between independently deployed services, built on HTTP/2 and a schema-driven contract mechanism (protoc…