If you have an interest in distributed computing "The End of Protocols" is a great read: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/infra/waldo

If you have an interest in distributed computing "The End of Protocols" is a great read: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/infra/waldo-end-of-proto.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/i... The whole RPC vs. REST thing is not a useful distinction.