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It's amazing how much work these days goes into re-inventing RPC.

HTTP API's, whether using JSON as the data encoding or not, is basically RPC. Celery is decentralized RPC. AMQP is decentralized, unreliable RPC.

It's even a buzzword: microservices are basically "let's use RPC as much as possible".

Anything highly-distributed evolves towards explicit message passing, which is basically... yep, RPC.

You would think we'd have come up with a semi-reasonable general solution by now.

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