gRPC

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A high-performance RPC framework built on HTTP/2 using Protocol Buffers for serialization. Supports unary, server streaming, client streaming, and bidirectional streaming. Provides strong typing, code generation, and efficient binary serialization. Widely used for microservice communication.

Key Properties

• Protocol Buffers
• Bidirectional Streaming
• Code Generation

Related

• HTTP 2 (gRPC is built on HTTP/2)
• Service Mesh (often used with gRPC services)

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