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Yeah, it's certainly more compelling than trying to build on HTTP 1.1. The alternative I had in mind was not using HTTP, though (for instance building some cust

by cespare 12y ago

Yeah, it's certainly more compelling than trying to build on HTTP 1.1. The alternative I had in mind was not using HTTP, though (for instance building some custom framed protocol on TCP, or open-sourcing some version of whatever Google uses internally for protobuf RPC.) a11r pointed out several interesting features of HTTP/2 that are put to good use in gRPC, though.

dsymonds 12y ago
gRPC is based on the internal Stubby RPC system, and that works over HTTP/1.1 based on CONNECT and switching to raw TCP. That works well enough, but the HTTP/2 goodies are too good to pass up.
- cespare 12y ago
  Great context, thanks. I'm excited to start using it :)
- ejona86 12y ago
  And using HTTP/2 directly allows using HTTP/2-based load balancers and reverse proxies, which is a huge bonus.