Yeah, I'm not sure how optimized the python protocol buffer stuff is. Years ago I benchmarked the pure python protobuf lib and it was terribly slow. grpc was

Yeah, I'm not sure how optimized the python protocol buffer stuff is. Years ago I benchmarked the pure python protobuf lib and it was terribly slow. grpc was nice to work with though. I generated the stubs and stuck my logic in there and had a working client/server in about 20 minutes. The streaming request/reply stuff was crazy easy to use, though I don't know if it does pipelining.