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gRPC: The Ugly Parts
The seedy underbelly of gRPC.
They eventually added a ServeHTTP() interface to grpc-go as an experimental way to use the HTTP server from the Go standard library but using that method results in a significant loss of performance. Getting started with protobuf, understanding the tooling, and setting up the necessary infrastructure can be intimidating for newcomers, making the initial adoption hurdle higher than with simpler JSON-based APIs. There’s a giant industry-wide conversation happening right now around where the line between “frontend” and “backend” meet and I think no matter the outcome, we’re going to see more typescript code using gRPC.
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