Wasn't the limiting factor RAM latency? Anyway, yes, computers parse way too much JSON, SQL, and whatever else. I've recently started working with gRPC, and boy

Wasn't the limiting factor RAM latency? Anyway, yes, computers parse way too much JSON, SQL, and whatever else. I've recently started working with gRPC, and boy is it nice. The current paradigm where every action requires a text blob to be written, compressed, then sent to a server that decompresses it, parses it, acts on it, then creates a new text blob that is compressed and sent out... It's a bit much. And that's before ypu add load balancers and microservices. gRPC cuts down on the parsing and compressing bits, but it's still quite wasteful.