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GraphQL and gRPC

February 26, 2023October 7, 2022 by Digi Hunch

Big Picture For inter-process communication at a high level, the two styles are asynchronous and synchronous styles: RPCs, built on top of TCP/UDP, are usually complex to implement. SOAP improved it and can operate on HTTP. Many large companies today still used SOAP for message exchange. However, it has a limitation with complex format and … Read moreGraphQL and gRPC

How NFS works

March 20, 2022July 15, 2020 by Digi Hunch

I touched on NFS in several previous postings, and here is a deeper dive of this particular protocol. NFS is built on top of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and therefore it is important to understand RPC first. In fact NFS is one of the most prominent user of RPC and the best example for learning … Read moreHow NFS works