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kyrra on Sept 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serv...

I'm not sure what the first RPC protocol was, but could it be the SunRPC[0]? I used that at my first job and thought it was pretty magical.

EDIT: duh, search for "rpc" on wikipedia[1]. The first came a few years before SunRPC out of Xerox PARC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Network_Computing_Remote_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call

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