gRPC APIs

Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a high-performance, open-source framework for executing remote procedure calls. It was developed by Google and is based on the HTTP/2 protocol. Unlike REST, which is data-centric, gRPC is function-centric, making it a powerful tool for creating highly efficient APIs. We will now discuss the design principles, use cases, and strengths and weaknesses of gRPC APIs.

Design principles of gRPC APIs

gRPC uses Protocol Buffers (protobuf) as its interface definition language. Protobuf is a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. It’s more efficient and faster than JSON, which is commonly used in REST APIs.

gRPC allows you to define services in a .proto file, and then automatically generates client and server stubs in a variety of languages. This makes it easier to create and maintain APIs, as changes to the service definition are automatically propagated to the client and server...