This document discusses several RPC frameworks including REST, SOAP, gRPC, Hessian, Thrift, and Avro. REST has limitations like multiple round trips and weakly typed endpoints. gRPC offers features like streaming, security, and performance while being interoperable. Both Thrift and gRPC use protocol buffers for interface definition and code generation. Avro can be used for both RPC calls and storing data in files. A benchmark shows gRPC and protocol buffers provide better performance and efficiency than alternatives like JSON or Thrift.