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If you think about it, it is truly crazy. You're using HTTP over TCP/IP to send JSON to do RPC. Some form of RPC has effectively been around forever. But des
by wvenable 6y ago
If you think about it, it is truly crazy. You're using HTTP over TCP/IP to send JSON to do RPC. Some form of RPC has effectively been around forever. But despite the layered complexity there is something to doing RPC this way that just works. Maybe it's that you can leverage several decades of work on load balancing and firewalling HTTP connections. Maybe it's that binary RPC protocols are too brittle and change is too difficult. I don't know.