for network protocol: Remote Procedure Call (RPC) - network protocol

Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

• is an architectural framework for calling a procedure in another process and exchanging data
• implemented on top of an existing network protocol

Implementations

• building RPC APIs with HTTP
  • Understanding RPC Vs REST For HTTP APIs
    • If an API is mostly actions, maybe it should be RPC
    • If an API is mostly CRUD, maybe it should be REST
• XML-RPC
• JSON-RPC
• SOAP RPC
• gRPC - includes protocol-buffers a tool that generates “boilerplate” code, for server and/or client method stubs