I think worth reading is "A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm - 30 years later" (https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/a-critique-of-the-remote-procedure-

I think worth reading is "A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm - 30 years later" (https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/a-critique-of-the-remote-procedure-call-paradigm-30-years-later.html https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/a-critique-of-the-remote-proc...), as well as Tanenbaum's original paper: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/euteco-1988.pdf https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/euteco-1988.pd.... Sure, it's old, but still very relevant. gRPC does better against his criticisms than the likes of JSON-RPC does.