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40 Years of Pretending • Reid Draper • GOTO 2014

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Channel: GOTO Conferences · 2014 · Science & Technology

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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2014
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Reid Draper - Professional Erlang Developer, works on Riak @PumaReid 

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ABSTRACT
Distributed systems are hard. We first got a glimpse of an easier way with 1974’s RFC 674, which introduced the Remote Procedure Call (RPC): a way to treat remote network calls as local. Unfortunately, RPC is fraught with issues, many raised immediately after RPC's introduction. Despite this, RPC hasn't died. Indeed, it's seeing a resurgence, as developers are finding appeal in writing tightly coupled server and browser code in the same language, be it Javascript or a compile-to-Javascript language. In this talk, we'll explore the concrete issues that RPC and its ilk create, as well as explore actionable alternatives. 

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