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gRPC was created by Google, as an open-source, high-performance Remote Procedure Call framework to be used within just about any type of environment. gRPC can connect services inside or across data centers and has pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking, and authentication. You can even use gRPC in the “last mile” of distributed computing, to connect remote services (such as apps on mobile devices) to backend services.
gRPC isn’t a new concept. In fact, it was adopted from Remote Procedure Call RPC and has gained significant popularity in a few short years.
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Before we dive further into gRPC, let’s find out what exactly a Remote Procedure Call is. RPC is a form of client-server communication that relies on a function call instead of the usual HTTP call. Here’s how it works:
A client sends a request message to a remote server to execute a specific procedure.
The remote server sends a response to the client
The client application receives the response and can proceed with the process.
It’s that simple. A client request, a server response, and the requesting client can then proceed with the action at hand.
Without this communication between clients and servers, apps that depend on remote data or functions wouldn’t work.
There are 2 main problems with RPC, though:
With gRPC, the framework declares the service in a language-agnostic Interface Definition Language (IDL) and then generates language-specific bindings. The big difference between RPC and gRPC is that gRPC is designed to make the client believe the server is on the same machine. This is partly achieved by how the protocol uses serialization.
gRPC makes it possible for any custom data type that requires serialization to be defined as a Protocol Buffer, which is an open-source, cross-platform library used to serialize structured data. Protocol Buffers are useful for applications that are designed to communicate with one another over a network or for storing data.
Originally, everyone assumed the “g” in gRPC stood for “Google.” To avoid that, Google changes the meaning of the “g” in each version they release, so no one actually knows what the “g” stands for. Regardless of nomenclature, gRPC has become incredibly popular. Why? Because gRPC:
It’s within the world of microservices that gRPC really excels.
One of the most important reasons why gRPC is such a performant system is because it’s very good at making use of HTTP2.
The big advantage of HTTP2 over HTTP is that the second iteration makes it possible to send multiple requests and receive multiple responses simultaneously. Because of this, a new connection will not be required for each request/response. Not only does this make HTTP2 more efficient, but it also makes it more performant and reliable.
Other reasons why gRPC is superior include:
It’s within the world of microservices that gRPC really excels.
The answer here is simple: When you’re building an application that is a collection of microservices, and those microservices require the means to efficiently and reliably communicate with one another, your best bet is gRPC.
And because gRPC supports so many languages (such as C#, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and PHP), you can be sure that whatever project you are working on supports this outstanding communication framework.
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