There has been a flurry of gRPC posts on HN recently - it must be the new xml soap rest NoSQL fad! NoSQL is an interesting parallel - Google publish map reduce

There has been a flurry of gRPC posts on HN recently - it must be the new xml soap rest NoSQL fad! NoSQL is an interesting parallel - Google publish map reduce and bigtable and amazon publish some influential papers and suddenly everyone is using NoSQL in order to be "web scale". Then it turns out that Google themselves were doing sql web scale and spanner and all that. There's a risk that gRPC is the same? In chat yesterday ex-googlers said that Google was increasingly moving over to flatbuffer... Personally I have an aversion for tools with generators. Harks back to the damage CORBA did me I guess... I also have a preference for plaintext eg JSON - so much easier to debug. Oh well. Guess we're in the fashion business ... ;)