What is the advantage of using gRPC?

Microservices: gRPC is designed for low latency and high throughput communication . gRPC is great for lightweight microservices where efficiency is critical. Point-to-point real-time communication: gRPC has excellent support for bi-directional streaming. gRPC services can push messages in real-time without polling.

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Should I replace REST with gRPC?

No, you don’t need to switch from REST gRPC is not the evolution of REST, nor is it a better way to build APIs. In a nutshell, gRPC is a way to use RPC’s lightweight structure along with HTTP with a few handy tweaks. It’s just another alternative for you to consider when you start designing a new API.

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Should I replace REST with gRPC?

No, you don’t need to switch from REST gRPC is not the evolution of REST, nor is it a better way to build APIs. In a nutshell, gRPC is a way to use RPC’s lightweight structure along with HTTP with a few handy tweaks. It’s just another alternative for you to consider when you start designing a new API.

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Is gRPC same as Protobuf?

Actually, gRPC and Protobuf are 2 completely different things . Let me simplify: gRPC manages the way a client and a server can interact (just like a web client/server with a REST API) protobuf is just a serialization/deserialization tool (just like JSON)

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