I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...

Microsoft’s disclosure of three new security holes in Windows came just moments before its senior security strategist, Phil Reitinger, told lawmakers on the House Government Reform technology ...

With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices. Both features are meant to improve ...

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XML-based Remote Procedure Call (XML-RPC) receives occasional attention as a simple protocol for remote procedure calls. It is straightforward to use, and easily available implementations such as ...