Reasons to use gRPC/Protobuf?

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  • grpc-gateway

    gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

  • Protobuf is used is massively scaled services like firebase. But you'll still see JSON in streamed realtime services like AWS Kinesis. Hopefully google had a return on investment for creating and using this protocol, but it's not hard to prove that it's far from essential. Out of apparent convenience I use grpc-gateway so I can expose both Protobuf and JSON, but honestly I wouldn't do it again

  • twirp

    A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions

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  • googleapis

    Public interface definitions of Google APIs.

  • We structure the repo according to proto packages. It's quite similar to how the googleapis repository is structured.

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