Heavy Engineering·August 20, 2025
When REST API Feels Slow: A Taste of gRPC
JSON is heavy, and REST is chatty. Enter gRPC, Google's answer to high-performance microservices communication. We explore the magic of Protocol Buffers serialization, the power of HTTP/2 multiplexing, and the four streaming patterns. We also cover the caveats: why gRPC is hard to use in browsers and how load balancing differs from HTTP/1.1.
#gRPC#Backend#Microservices#Protocol Buffers
