Mar 25, 2026
13 min read
IPC: The Distributed Object Era (Late 80s–90s)
CORBA and COM promised a world of universal distributed objects. Reality had other plans.
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Mar 24, 2026
16 min read
IPC: The RPC Dream (1980s)
The seductive promise of making remote calls look local — and the hard lesson that followed.
Mar 22, 2026
15 min read
IPC: The Unix Foundation (1970s)
Pipes, signals, shared memory, and sockets — how Unix laid the groundwork for everything that followed.
Mar 19, 2026
15 min read
IPC: Apple's Own Path (1991–2011)
From the most ambitious inter-app communication model to the most restrictive — Apple's twenty-year arc.
Mar 18, 2026
14 min read
IPC: Fifty Years of Apps Trying to Talk to Each Other
From Unix pipes to gRPC — and the semantic context gap that still remains.