What do you see as the advantage of using gRPC when compared to simply sending protobuff over a rest API?

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  • gRPC

    The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

    • Yes.

  • grpc-gateway

    gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

    • You can also automatically generate a JSON REST API adapter: https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway

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