Remote procedure call¶
Category: Distributed systems · Status: stub
One line: Calling a function that runs on another machine as though it were local — convenient until the network fails in a way no local call can.
Also called: RPC, RMI, remote method invocation.
How it connects¶
- See also: Distributed computing, Partial failure
In each language¶
| Go | net/rpc ↗, frozen and not accepting new features |
| Java | RMI ↗: an object in one Java virtual machine invokes methods on an object in another |
| Python | xmlrpc ↗, remote procedure calls as XML over HTTP |
| C# | gRPC on ASP.NET Core ↗ |
| Erlang and Elixir | erpc ↗, enhanced remote procedure calls to functions on other nodes |
| Elsewhere | gRPC ↗: services described in Protocol Buffers, with a deadline on each call |
Where to read more¶
- Notes: remote method invocation (RMI) - general ↗
- Reference: Wikipedia: Remote procedure call ↗