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It's TCP vs. RPC All over Again

by Larry Peterson systemsapproach.substack.com published 2023-02-20

We’ve written previously about the fact that the Internet seems to be missing a standard protocol for the request/response paradigm, with repeated attempts to force-fit TCP leading to inevitable mismatches. Sometimes we feel that we are the only people who think this way, with our networking

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