>It is our contention that a large number of things may now go wrong due to the fact that RPC tries to make remote procedure calls look exactly like local ones,

>It is our contention that a large number of things may now go wrong due to the fact that RPC tries to make remote procedure calls look exactly like local ones, but is unable to do it perfectly. This is precisely where I feel like there has been substantial progress. RPC frameworks like Cap'n Proto do an excellent job of providing network-aware APIs that give you precise control over network IO.