>but there's a lot of machinery under the hood in its network layer GRPC is designed to enable peer-to-peer communication in a microservices mesh, so it has ho

>but there's a lot of machinery under the hood in its network layer GRPC is designed to enable peer-to-peer communication in a microservices mesh, so it has hooks for a number of things like service discovery, authentication, health checking, retry policy, connection pooling, observability, etc. If you're just looking for a serialization format you might prefer Protobuf itself.