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Whilst gRPC is nearly always used together with protobuf, I think it’s important to note they are different projects. gRPC is a CNCF project with open governan
by bboreham 2y ago
Whilst gRPC is nearly always used together with protobuf, I think it’s important to note they are different projects.
gRPC is a CNCF project with open governance. gRPC people show up at industry conferences like KubeCon and run their own conference.
Protobuf is a Google-internal project, with opaque governance and no conference.
I find it striking that the one has such tight dependencies on the other. Indeed the article is mostly about protobuf.
- Scaevolus 2y agogRPC actually doesn't care that much about the serialization method. It's straightforward to use JSON, MsgPack, BSON, CapnProto, and so on with gRPC instead of protobuf.