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Systems Programming with C# and .NET

You're reading from   Systems Programming with C# and .NET Building robust system solutions with C# 12 and .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835082683
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dennis Vroegop Dennis Vroegop
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Preface 1. Overview of Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 1: The One with the Low-Level Secrets 3. Chapter 2: The One Where Speed Matters 4. Chapter 3: The One with the Memory Games 5. Chapter 4: The One with the Thread Tangles 6. Chapter 5: The One with the Filesystem Chronicles 7. Chapter 6: The One Where Processes Whisper 8. Chapter 7: The One with the Operating System Tango 9. Chapter 8: The One with the Network Navigation 10. Chapter 9: The One with the Hardware Handshakes 11. Chapter 10: The One with the Systems Check-Ups 12. Chapter 11: The One with the Debugging Dances 13. Chapter 12: The One with the Security Safeguards 14. Chapter 13: The One with the Deployment Dramas 15. Chapter 14: The One with the Linux Leaps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Overview of RPCs and how to use them for IPC

So far, we have looked at ways we can share data. In most cases, developers use this to do just data: send a payload from one system to another. However, the payload can also be something else. They can be commands to instruct a piece of software to do something. Instead of storing, transforming, and using data in systems, we can tell other systems to perform actions. In that case, we talk about RPC.

To control a system from the outside, establish a communication line, ensure your security is in order, and define a protocol.

There are many ways to do this. In the old days, we used to have SOAP, DCOM, WCF, and other techniques to do so.

RESTFul services versus RPC

You could consider RESTFul services to be some kind of RPC. However, they are not the same, and I do not want to go into RESTful services here. There are many similarities, but the basic idea behind RESTful services is that they are all about resources. Calls to web...

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