Why RPC is important?

Remote Method Call is to solve how to pass messages in distributed system. The stability and performance of RPC will affect the whole system.

Components of RPC

1. Transport
   • TCP
2. I/O
   • Blocking I/O
   • Non-blocking I/O
   • I/O Multiplexing
   • Asynchronous I/O
3. Process/Thread Model
   • Reactor Pattern
   • Proactor Pattern
4. Schema & Data Serialization
   • Encoding format
   • Schema declaration
   • 语言平台的中立性
   • 新老契约的兼容性
   • 和压缩算法的契合度
   • Performance
5. Wire Protocol (Wire Frame)
6. Reliability

References

体系化认识 RPC