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gRPC

gRPC

gRPC is a platform agnostic serialization protocol that is used to communicate between services. Designed by Google in 2015, it is a modern alternative to REST APIs. It is a binary protocol that uses HTTP/2 as a transport layer. It is a high performance, open source, general-purpose RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first.

It’s main use case is for communication between two different languages within the same application. You can use Python to communicate with Go, or Java to communicate with C#.

gRPC uses the protocol buffer language to define the structure of the data that is

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