Re:Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
by cdoxsey on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:06PM
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gRPC has significant technical advantages to SOAP/XML.
- The gRPC protocol is built on top of http2 - a protocol designed to overcome many of the shortcomings in http, primarily performance.
- protobuf is a much simpler serialization format that achieves far better performance than XML
- gRPC allows message streaming in both directions. For some use cases this is vital for achieving performance.
- there's a growing ecosystem to make it easier to work with large distributed systems. I could list a bunch, but I will just point to one: gRPC has many options for the load balancing of requests: https://grpc.io/blog/loadbalancing.
gRPC is clearly the better solution if you intend to build a large, multi-service, distributed system or want to build cloud APIs for mobile devices. And it's not just because developers hate XML.
- The gRPC protocol is built on top of http2 - a protocol designed to overcome many of the shortcomings in http, primarily performance.
- protobuf is a much simpler serialization format that achieves far better performance than XML
- gRPC allows message streaming in both directions. For some use cases this is vital for achieving performance.
- there's a growing ecosystem to make it easier to work with large distributed systems. I could list a bunch, but I will just point to one: gRPC has many options for the load balancing of requests: https://grpc.io/blog/loadbalancing.
gRPC is clearly the better solution if you intend to build a large, multi-service, distributed system or want to build cloud APIs for mobile devices. And it's not just because developers hate XML.