I'm frankly surprised by the amount of people coding backends and frontends that communicate through REST. RPC is a nearly transparent mechanism that makes communication between two processes nearly ...

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①增加、设置、删除“点”。 ②读、写“点”。 ③配置MQTT信息。 ④升级传感器。 这些操作，都是通过RPC接口跟后台程序（控制中心）进行交互，它不直接操作硬件。 ①通过RPC接口更后台程序（控制中心）进行交互：获得MQTT信息、获得点的信息、读写点。

I don’t expect that many developers today fully appreciate the quiet glory that is REST and JSON. But then, most developers today have not been around the software business as long as I have. It’s ...