Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

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When you say REST do you mean real REST or just an HTTP API interface that doesn't necessarily correspond with actual REST principles? While I haven't had much experience with grpc (I did some initial ...

gRPC is a high-performance binary protocol for remote procedure calls on virtually any platform. Here's a hands-on intro to using gRPC with Node. gRPC is a binary protocol for remote procedure calls, ...

With remote procedure calls your APIs don’t need to be RESTful. You build your server methods and client calls, and gRPC takes care of the rest It’s always interesting to delve into the protocols and ...