gRPC deep dive: from service definition to wire format | Kreya
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A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
  • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
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    4 个月前

    It’s always seemed weird to me that gRPC is built on HTTP/2 for network transport, as opposed to just TCP. Seems like a weird amount of overhead to shoehorn binary data into what is, ostensibly, a primarily-text protocol. Anyone have context on what HTTP/2 adds to the equation? It can’t be just about supporting browser clients, cause, as tge article mentions, the basic gRPC doesn’t. There’s an alternate revision of the protocol for running browser clients, gRPC-Web.