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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by throwaway45349 on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:26PM (#25799383)
C++ still dominates in most of Google's 'big' systems, most of which are implemented as HTTP servers.
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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by thethethethe on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:23PM (#25800013)
google uses stubby (essentially gRPC), not http, for internal APIs.
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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by throwaway45349 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:15PM (#25805087)
Stubby still uses HTTP as the transport layer. You're probably thinking of REST.
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