RPC and Its Offspring: Convenient, yet Fundamentally Flawed (2009) [pdf]

The ending notes are appropriate remarks given the time of the year :)

> It’s almost 2010, folks — we can do WAY better

> ✤ pull your head from the imperative language sand and learn functional programming

> ✤ the world is many-core and highly distributed, and the old ways aren’t going to keep working much longer