gRPC Communication Patterns

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Unary (single request/response), server streaming (one request, stream of responses), client streaming (stream of requests, one response), and bidirectional streaming (both sides stream). HTTP/2 enables multiplexing and efficient streaming.

Key Properties

• Unary RPC
• Streaming RPC
• HTTP2 Multiplexing

Related

• Protocol Buffers (message format)
• Inter-Service Communication (use case)

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