Overview of RPC and How to Build a Custom RPC Framework Using Netty
This article explains the fundamentals and key characteristics of Remote Procedure Call (RPC), outlines common use cases and popular frameworks, and then walks through the design and implementation of a simple custom RPC system—including a bespoke binary protocol, client‑side proxy generation, serialization, Netty‑based encoding/decoding, server‑side request handling, and result delivery—using Java and Netty.