This article covers the concept of APIs and RPCs, how they work, overview on protocols which offers RPCs and API as a service but for a proper understanding of what RPCs are, understanding how ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Abstract: Applications that use directory services or relational databases operate in a client–server model, where a client requests information from a server, and the server returns a response to the ...

Apache Dubbo, a high-performance, Java-based remote procedure call (RPC) framework originally developed at the Alibaba online marketplace and open sourced in 2011 and open sourced last year, is now a ...

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In my previous contribution I reviewed Apache Hadoop’s native support for HDFS Encryption, which allows sensitive data to be stored and encrypted on HDFS with keys protected by KMS access control ...